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Shutter Island Mental Illness

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Shutter Island is the story of the escape of a murderer, bringing U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels to Ashecliffe Hospital. Ashecliffe Hospital is a insane asylum on a secluded island. Hints of terrible deeds within the hospital are felt through the entire movie. A woman appeared to vanish from a locked room at the hospital. An investigation takes place, when Teddy starts to realize he needs to confront himself and his fears if he wants to escape the island alive. Teddy shows us his intelligence and leadership roll, to an extent that we see his traumatic World War II experiences coming back to haunt him. Aside from the WWII trauma, we also see alcohol and work becoming a problem in his life. We are blinded by the family man idea provided for …show more content…

The movie takes a turn when we really discover who Teddy is. We see Andrew Laeddis’s false belief that he is U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels on the island investigating the disappearance of a patient there. Andrew exhibits being paranoid, and believing the entire island he is on is involved in crazy evil practices. With this being said, we see these thoughts being non-bizarre delusions. Laeddis suffered from hallucinations such as his wife he killed speaking to him, seeing himself shooting Dr, Crawley, and beginning to believe he was only on the island because the doctors tricked him into thinking it was his idea. He began drinking excessively after the war to suppress his feelings, this shows an effect from posttraumatic stress disorder. Although, there is obviously more to his condition than just PTSD because Teddy is simply just a counter personality in order to help forget the tragedy of Dolores killing their children. You see Teddy having very strong symptoms like shaking, migraines, sick to his stomach, sensitivity to light and sound, and irritability with mood swings. We learn Andrew has been put on a medicine for the two previous years, and is slowly being taken off. The symptoms are a mixture of the disorder as well as …show more content…

For example, if the patient thinks the therapist believes he or she is crazy, the therapy can be completely stopped. When trying to overcome the delusion in a person, you must connect with the goals and main problems in the person's life. Once in depth with the sessions, the therapist can begin by reinforcing positive aspects and behaviors the person has in their life. This shows the patient a sense of self-confidence. The next step would consist of tackling the discussion of the client’s smallest and less important delusions. Here you see if the sessions will be very long-term due to the cooperation of the person admitting and understanding in some way that they have delusions. Although, even if the patient is willing the treatment can take at least 6 months to a

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