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The movie that I watched for this essay is Girl Interrupted. Girl Interrupted is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Susanna Kaysen who is admitted to Claymoore psychiatric hospital. She ends up in the hospital after having an overdose of medication. She begins to deny accusations that she was going commit suicide. Susanna has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The doctors suggest that Susanna stays in the hospital for about eighteen months. She wants to be a writer rather than going to an Ivy League college like what her friends were doing. The movie focuses on her journey during her stay at the hospital. She encounters many young women who have different forms of mental illnesses. There are several character that the movie mentions. The characters are Susanna, Polly, Georgina, Daisy, Lisa, Janet and lastly Cynthia. Susanna is the protagonist of the film and she is …show more content…

Polly has schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is one of the most severe mental illnesses it is long term and disrupts the daily thinking and emotions. Georgina is a pathological liar. Compulsively lying is includes telling false stories and facing delusions. It is very hard to categorizes this as a part of the mental illness although many of the symptoms are along the lines of antisocial and BPD. Daisy suffers from an eating disorder and she is antisocial. Antisocial personality disorder is one of the chronic mental disorders where the person is the view about others is very callous. Lisa is a sociopath. A sociopath is a person having extreme antisocial behaviors towards someone. Janet is anorexic. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder where the people have a fear of gaining weight, therefore, restricts their food intake. Cynthia is mentally disturbed. The term mentally disturbed is broad it can be any mental disorder. It basically means Cynthia has a mental illness, but it is unclear which mental illness she

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