Boo Radley Psychological Analysis

“To kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper lee, which will be focusing on the mental mind of Boo Radley. Motivation and the mental state of a person's mind state with stigma feelings all around. Also, the stability of that person’s mind mentally; when dealing with things like depression, anxiety, irritability, an eating disorder, or some other mental issues. We look at Boo Radley, a boy who has been locked up in his house after stabbing a person intentionally. He was labeled a monster and someone who people are easily afraid of. He is dealing with a hard mental stigma state to where he doesn’t leave his own house anymore. The stigma a mentally unstable mind affects the stigma of how that person will live and are labeled as: like pariah, …show more content…
This is a stigma that is a disease that affects someone on a daily in America. The Nimh.Nih.gov is the site that I found all about teen depression and adult depression, now the definition they gave was “Mood disorder. It causes severe symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities.” Obviously this took over the mind of Boo of how he was handling his life. Side effects of this disease that is a leading cause of death in the US is slow, loss of sleep, guilt, thought of death, self harm, loss of energy in a simple task. All those are similar to Boo when he went crazy and stabbed that person. Now depression is one of the leading causes of deaths in the average person from the young all the way up to the old, it affects how your mind will tell you how to live in life. Now in Boo’s case, he could have used multiple rehab of the mind help, but he chose the darkest way ever and that was to be physically chained in his own …show more content…
A quote from the book around chapter 6 I believe said “he had stabbed a person on purpose to protect the kids.” He stabbed that man cause he was mentally unstable and Insane, come on he was locked up in his own house because he was so scary. “ he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch.” A quote that scout had made about Boo and how much of a monster he was. The kids were so scared of him, they would dare each other to touch his house and maybe he would chase them with a shotgun. Like these kids had labeled him as something I’m pretty sure he wasn’t. That people assumed who Boo Radley was after he stabbed his own father and that stranger to protect the kids. He was facing a stigma where he couldn’t leave his own house for what kids had thought of him, also making himself feel like he shouldn’t leave the house or even