Welcome to Me was released in 2015 in select theatres and on video demand. It follows a white woman named Alice Klieg, played by Kristen Wiig, after she wins eighty three million dollars in the California lottery. Unfortunately, Alice has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) which leads to her blowing a larger portion of her winnings on a reality show based on her. The National Institute of Mental Health lists impulsivity in dangerous areas (such as unsafe sex, substance abuse, spending, etc) as a symptom of BPD and it is very evident through Alice’s actions. (Borderline Personality Disorder, n.d.) She jumps into two sexual relationships, blows almost all of her money, and uses drugs and alcohol in the movie. Alice Klieg tells Gabe, an
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During her show, Alice recreates a lot of past events in her life. Those reenactments are evidence of her mental illness, as they are marked by emotional outburst from her and a lot of “splitting.” The National Alliance on Mental Illness describes splitting as alternating between idealization and devaluation (Borderline Personality Disorder, n.d.). There is a lot of evidence though to support her diagnosis. She had sex with multiple people very quickly and spent money impulsively. She says in the movie that she either feels nothing or feels too much. She has very unstable relationships and loses close friends in the movie. Her television must stay on, and usually has to be on the Oprah Winfrey show (her idol), in order for her to sleep or stay in her house. She has a very aggressive outburst and slaps Gabe after she accidentally burns herself on the show. She gets incredibly angry when the news station cuts off her prepared speech that she wanted to give after winning the lottery, and finishes the speech later when she interrupts the infomercial. She has no boundries and doesn’t understand other peoples’ reactions (evident when she asked a stranger if there was a rape in A Tale of Two
During her show, Alice recreates a lot of past events in her life. Those reenactments are evidence of her mental illness, as they are marked by emotional outburst from her and a lot of “splitting.” The National Alliance on Mental Illness describes splitting as alternating between idealization and devaluation (Borderline Personality Disorder, n.d.). There is a lot of evidence though to support her diagnosis. She had sex with multiple people very quickly and spent money impulsively. She says in the movie that she either feels nothing or feels too much. She has very unstable relationships and loses close friends in the movie. Her television must stay on, and usually has to be on the Oprah Winfrey show (her idol), in order for her to sleep or stay in her house. She has a very aggressive outburst and slaps Gabe after she accidentally burns herself on the show. She gets incredibly angry when the news station cuts off her prepared speech that she wanted to give after winning the lottery, and finishes the speech later when she interrupts the infomercial. She has no boundries and doesn’t understand other peoples’ reactions (evident when she asked a stranger if there was a rape in A Tale of Two