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Diagnosis and Treatment
Treatment of Susanna Kaysen from the film "Girl, Interrupted."
The central people focused on in the movie to bring out the disorders here are Susanna and Lisa. Susanna brings out the Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in this movie and this is evidenced by the behavioral displays that she shows while in the facility for the mentally challenged.
Diagnosis
According to the Medicine Net, (2012) the manifestations of BPD is seen when the patient displays the following symptoms;
The patient has emotional swings such that at one point the person may be confident and happy on one day and suddenly gets into a feeling of despair on the next day. They also display feelings of emptiness and anger during such times. This was evident in Susanna as she would interact very well with the Nurse Valerie on one day and relapse on the next day such that the nurse had to force her to even wake up.
The patient is also observed to having problems in maintaining relationships as was with Susanna as she does not consider sleeping with several men promiscuity but a normal issue that the society frowns at for no reason. She indeed slept with a husband of her parents' friend.
The person will also think differently of herself depending on the person or people around them and will have generally a very unstable sense of identity. This happened to Susanna in several occasions as she could think that she does not belong to the institution when she was with the psychiatrists and the nurses, but feel that she belonged to the institution when with the boyfriend.
The individual is also said to be prone to taking risks and doing things without necessarily thinking of the consequences. Susanna could be lured into going into the administration office and looting the documents...
Susanna once took a whole bottle of aspirin with vodka which was more of suicide than a dosage.
The patient also fears being abandoned or being rejected, a feeling that Susanna had when she was being sent to the psychiatric hospital and had to be dropped at the facility by a cab not the parents. These people also believe in things that are not in existence (delusions) like Susanna believed there was something in her head, she also had a skewed definition of words that she believed were true. These people often see things that are not present (hallucinations) as Susanna did as she severally saw the lifestyle she used to live and scenes that had already happened many days or years in the past yet she was in the hospital.
It is apparent that these people are also prone to other mental health related problems like anxiety, depression, eating disorders and even substance abuse.
B. Objective of the treatment
The treatment that Susanna undergoes for BPD is aimed at reorienting her to the normal way of perception of the world and the environment around her.
The treatment is also aimed at ensuring she gets to react to people in a normal way as would any other individual.
The treatment also aims at curbing the violent behavioral displays that Susanna at times displays against people.
The self destroying traits are target of the treatment to ensure she does not end her life or harm herself.
C. Assessments need
There will be…
References
Medicine Net, (2012a). Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Retrieved February 12, 2014 from http://www.medicinenet.com/borderline_personality_disorder/article.htm
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