Schizoid Personality Disorder In Lars And The New Girl

In the movie Lars and the New Girl , Lars the main character is a little off. In the movie his brother is his neighbor. His brother’s wife had noticed Lars had been acting weird considering he had not come to see them lately. She goes over to visit but he gets very tense every time she tries to talk to him. Eventually she gets him to come to dinner with her and her husband, Lars’s brother. At dinner they talk about how Lars mom died giving birth to him. That contributes to part of the reason Lars is the way he is. In his early life that was traumatic. He grew up with no nurturing from his father and that can cause him to be the way he is. Lars shows most symptoms of Schizoid Personality Disorder. This was most likely triggered when he was young by the traumatic experience he went through. He fits the description of schizoid personality disorder
His brother and his wife tell Lars Bianca is sick, when really they just want Lars to get help. However, that doesn't really seem to help at first. The doctor eventually starts to break him out of it a little bit. Towards the end of the story he starts to recover. He starts making up stories about how Bianca is very sick and how she said no when he asked her to marry him. Everything Bianca does is in his imagination, her life is up to him he just doesn't realize this, It all goes back the schizoid personality disorder. As soon as Bianca starts getting very sick, he starts talking to Margo. Lars and Margo eventually plan a day to hang out. They go bowling together and one can see Lars starts to have feeling for her because they touched hands. In Lars imagination Bianca dies. This makes him feel free. His treatment in the end starts to work. He starts to open up more. In conclusion, Lars eventually opens up and doesn't heal completely, but ends up not having as many symptoms than he did in the