I would diagnose Dr. Alex Forrest as having Borderline Personality Disorder with some Historic disorders symptom’s as well. She also exhibits some signs of Historic Personality Disorder as well. One more so than the other, as I will discuss later. Borderline Personality Disorder is characterized as showing a pattern of instability, lack of control over impulses, low self-image and difficult interpersonal relationships. While Histrionic Personality Disorder displays a pervasive pattern of excess emotion and attention seeking behaviors.
Dr. Alex Forrest is female, Caucasian in her forties. She is single and works in a publishing company. After meeting Dan and having a sexual encounter, Alex becomes obsessed with Dan’s life, wife and child. She …show more content…
Alex shows this by not wanting to let Dan leave after their sexual encounter. She also shows this by cutting her wrists when Dan was about to leave her. Alex has a major problem with abandonment issues.
Criteria five; Alex displays major fears of abandonment throughout the movie. From the time of Dan and Alex’s meeting until the death of Alex. She shows being fearful of Dan leaving her, therefore, could not leave Dan alone, nor his family.
Also, under criteria five, Alex shows recurrent suicidal tendencies. She had a tendency to hold large kitchen knives when she was angry. Alex made threats and gestures she was going to do harm, not only to herself but to others as well. Her suicidal tendencies, like when Dan tried to leave, Alex then cut both her wrists. This attempt on her life was just a ploy to get Dan to stay with her. So Dan could nurse her back to health.
Alex also falls under criteria four; she was impulsive in her decision making and putting herself in potentially life-threatening situations. By having sexual relations with a man, she did not know, the diseases she could have caught. She also partakes in substance abuse, which falls under this criterion as …show more content…
She was intense, had episodic dysphoria, an irritability or maybe anxiety, lasting anywhere from an hour to several days. Alex would physically attack Dan. She felt that they belonged together, the family was getting in the way. When Dan refused, she poured acid on his car, not caring about any consequences.
Chronic feelings of emptiness is the criteria seven, that Alex expressed. After Dan did not invite Alex to the Opera, for which she had bought tickets for them to go together. Instead he took his wife. Alex then sat in her apartment with an empty feeling inside herself, as she flicked the off and on repeatedly, to show us how empty she felt inside. Later that night she calls Dan to tell him about the emptiness she felt inside, to no avail.
Alex shows many signs indictive of criteria eight, inappropriate and intense anger or lack thereof. She was unable to control her anger after a certain point. She displays a bad temper and a constant and recurrent physical fights. There were several altercations between Alex and
Dr. Alex Forrest is female, Caucasian in her forties. She is single and works in a publishing company. After meeting Dan and having a sexual encounter, Alex becomes obsessed with Dan’s life, wife and child. She …show more content…
Alex shows this by not wanting to let Dan leave after their sexual encounter. She also shows this by cutting her wrists when Dan was about to leave her. Alex has a major problem with abandonment issues.
Criteria five; Alex displays major fears of abandonment throughout the movie. From the time of Dan and Alex’s meeting until the death of Alex. She shows being fearful of Dan leaving her, therefore, could not leave Dan alone, nor his family.
Also, under criteria five, Alex shows recurrent suicidal tendencies. She had a tendency to hold large kitchen knives when she was angry. Alex made threats and gestures she was going to do harm, not only to herself but to others as well. Her suicidal tendencies, like when Dan tried to leave, Alex then cut both her wrists. This attempt on her life was just a ploy to get Dan to stay with her. So Dan could nurse her back to health.
Alex also falls under criteria four; she was impulsive in her decision making and putting herself in potentially life-threatening situations. By having sexual relations with a man, she did not know, the diseases she could have caught. She also partakes in substance abuse, which falls under this criterion as …show more content…
She was intense, had episodic dysphoria, an irritability or maybe anxiety, lasting anywhere from an hour to several days. Alex would physically attack Dan. She felt that they belonged together, the family was getting in the way. When Dan refused, she poured acid on his car, not caring about any consequences.
Chronic feelings of emptiness is the criteria seven, that Alex expressed. After Dan did not invite Alex to the Opera, for which she had bought tickets for them to go together. Instead he took his wife. Alex then sat in her apartment with an empty feeling inside herself, as she flicked the off and on repeatedly, to show us how empty she felt inside. Later that night she calls Dan to tell him about the emptiness she felt inside, to no avail.
Alex shows many signs indictive of criteria eight, inappropriate and intense anger or lack thereof. She was unable to control her anger after a certain point. She displays a bad temper and a constant and recurrent physical fights. There were several altercations between Alex and