Miss Havisham In Great Expectations

In the book, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, several different characters have different mental disorders. The most obvious one is Miss Havisham. Some of the disorders she has includes depression, social anxiety, and PTSD. There’s many pieces of evidence throughout the whole book to prove this. Overall, Miss Havisham has several different disorders.

Miss Havisham suffers from depression. She has had problems all her life after she was left. People that suffer from depression are “Likely to have physical and emotional problems”(“Health Matters” 73). In the book, it says “An immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion”(Dickens 39). Miss Havisham has depression because her emotional issues caused her to seclude herself away from people. She also has a sense of worthlessness and

She developed it when she was younger “Sometimes last for life and can start at any age”(Health Matters 77). Her life was ruined when she was left at the altar, “It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that i took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had”(Dickens 44). Miss Havisham stopped her whole life back when her PTSD started to develop. It 's the only thing she lives, is that day over and over and over again. Being left at the altar caused her PTSD, “Caused by experiencing a terrifying event”(Health Matters 77). Miss Havisham 's life was ruined and she refused to do anything with her life, “‘Look at me,’ said Miss Havisham. ‘You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?’”(Dickens 44). Once she was left, she ended up just staying cooped up all of her life. She wanted nothing to do with the outside world. Nothing was worth it to her, everything reminds her of that day. In conclusion, Miss Havisham has