What About Bob: Borderline Personal Disorder

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In the movie “What About Bob” from the year of 1991, the main character, Bob possibly had borderline personal disorder and OCD. I did not chose this movie, I watched it in my high school psychology class. It was the first movie that I watched specifically because of a mental illness. In the movie, the mental illness wasn’t specifically specified by the psychologist. Bob knew something was wrong with him by showing that he always needed his psychologist. The symptoms that Bob showed for borderline personality disorder were lack of control over impulses and insatiability in relationships (PSYCH 323). He shows lack of control over impulses by always calling the psychologists and eventually following the doctor to his vacation spot. Bob showed