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    The film titled GirlInterrupted tells a story about a young woman‚ named Susanna‚ who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder‚ due to‚ her erratic behaviour and attempting suicide by consuming an entire bottle of pills. Susanna’s parents‚ especially‚ find her actions to be a burden and problematic and collectively make a life changing decision for their “troubled” daughter. After consulting a psychiatrist‚ Susanna is sent to a psychiatric hospital to treat her new diagnosed mental illness

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    The movie GirlInterrupted is based on the book GirlInterrupted‚ by Susanna Kaysen. I would like to say that it is loosely based because although the actress‚ Winona Ryder‚ does portray Kaysen’s borderline personality‚ it seems that Angelina Jolie‚ who is Lisa Rowe in the movie‚ steals the spotlight. GirlInterrupted is about a young girl who is put into the mental ward after an attempted suicide which she claims she was basically trying to leave a lot of stress she had from various experiences

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    Susanna Kaysen‚ in her memoir GirlInterrupted‚ recounts her eighteen-month stay at a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts. The events in the book took place in the 1960’s‚ meaning outside the hospital’s reinforced walls‚ the world was bustling with racism‚ social activism‚ and the Vietnam War. The story is not told as a chronological series of events‚ but rather as a collection of memories‚ darting between various periods of Kaysen’s visit. Throughout her stay at the hospital‚ Kaysen met a variety

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    Film Review “GirlInterrupted” Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder‚ which is under the large umbrella of metal disorders. BPD is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods‚ interpersonal relationships‚ self-image‚ and behavior. This instability often disrupts family and work life‚ long-term planning‚ and the individual’s sense of self-identity. However‚ according to Susanna Kaysen‚ doesn’t everyone have some of these symptoms every once

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    Reflection Paper: “GirlInterrupted” 1. Based on the movie and real life‚ do you think we need other people to help us understand and solve our problems? Why or why not? Absolutely. Without the presence of other people‚ there would be no social point of reference as to what would be considered “normal”. In order for an abnormality to exist‚ be it physical or psychological‚ there must be a widely accepted concept of “normalcy”. If a certain individual is said to be suffering a problem (in this

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    Girl Interrupted (1999) is a film depicting a youthful female in the 1960s battling with the instability of her own emotional sickness (Mangold‚ (n.d.)). With the influence of her parents‚ Susanna Kayson concedes herself into a psychiatric and is later determined to have Borderline Personality Disorder. Her fight demonstrates that those agonies from a psychiatric disorder may not generally meet the cliché picture depicted by the overall population. Other characters in this film did a fabulous depiction

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    The movie Girl Interrupted is set in 1967. It is about an 18 year old young lady named Susanna Kaysen. Susanna was not encouraged by her parents to be an individual and she surprises them when she tells them that she does not want to attend college but would rather peruse her passion of being an independent writer. Susanna ingested an entire bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka and claimed that she was just trying to get rid of a headache. After the attempted suicide‚ Susanna self admits herself

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    In the movie “Girl interrupted”‚ Daisy resided in a mental institution called the Mclean Hospital (3). The hospital provides medical and therapeutic treatments in order to reduce the symptoms of the patients’ disorder. If the patient shows signs of a normal behavior‚ then the patients is released back into the real world. Daisy was diagnosed in having a binge-eating disorder and agoraphobia. An agoraphobia‚ according to reports‚ is “a fear of being outside or otherwise being in a situation from which

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    Abstract This paper analyses the Borderline Personality Disorder. The analysis is based on the movie " Girl Interrupted". This movie is based on a true story of Susanna Kaysen. The paper presents the description of disorder based on DSM-IV-TR and The National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by impulsivity‚ unstable and intense interpersonal relationships‚ an unstable self-image‚ frantic efforts to avoid perceived abandonment‚ inappropriate

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    Cited: PAGE Quote #1- Page 21-FREEDOM- GirlInterrupted Quote #2- Page 80-SECURITY SCREEN-GirlInterrupted Quote #3 Page 54-CHECKS-GirlInterrupted GirlInterrupted- By Susanna Kaysen Copyright 1993 Originally published by Turtle Bay Books‚ A Division of Random House‚ INC‚ NY 1993 Web Pages . www.antipsychiatry.org Article on------- Psychiatry ’s Electro-convulsive

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