Case History
Ariel is a mermaid and the daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena. She is sixteen years old and the youngest of seven daughters. She seems to have a passion for collecting items, especially human objects. She is very curious and spends much time wandering and exploring with her friend Flounder, a yellow fish. She also is rebellious like many teenagers and she disobeys her father and Sebastian, a crustacean and her fathers advisor who watches over Ariel. Due to her rebellious and curious nature, she tends to get into trouble and dangerous situations.
Diagnosis
Ariel is diagnosed with Hoarding Disorder which is a pathological disorder characterized by cluttering of objects and the need to keep everything regardless of value(DSM-V). This is due to her tendencies to keep a large amount of seemingly useless objects while never discarding anything. She shows the tendencies to keep her objects hidden which is more consistent with hoarding rather than Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The specific criteria is listed as follows: …show more content…
Ariel’s obsession with hoarding interferes with her normal life. She goes searching for more objects instead of going to a concert that she promised her father she would go to. When Ariel’s father destroys all of her trinkets, she cries and is distressed. Ariel is unable to do anything else for a while because of this distress. The hoarding is not attributable to another medical condition (e.g., brain injury, cerebrovascular disease, Prader-Willi syndrome). The movie The Little Mermaid does not show that Ariel has any other medical conditions. She is not injured in any way besides the loss of her voice which was traded for human legs. This physical change was one done by a witch and the previous symptoms already existed and did not
Ariel is a mermaid and the daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena. She is sixteen years old and the youngest of seven daughters. She seems to have a passion for collecting items, especially human objects. She is very curious and spends much time wandering and exploring with her friend Flounder, a yellow fish. She also is rebellious like many teenagers and she disobeys her father and Sebastian, a crustacean and her fathers advisor who watches over Ariel. Due to her rebellious and curious nature, she tends to get into trouble and dangerous situations.
Diagnosis
Ariel is diagnosed with Hoarding Disorder which is a pathological disorder characterized by cluttering of objects and the need to keep everything regardless of value(DSM-V). This is due to her tendencies to keep a large amount of seemingly useless objects while never discarding anything. She shows the tendencies to keep her objects hidden which is more consistent with hoarding rather than Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The specific criteria is listed as follows: …show more content…
Ariel’s obsession with hoarding interferes with her normal life. She goes searching for more objects instead of going to a concert that she promised her father she would go to. When Ariel’s father destroys all of her trinkets, she cries and is distressed. Ariel is unable to do anything else for a while because of this distress. The hoarding is not attributable to another medical condition (e.g., brain injury, cerebrovascular disease, Prader-Willi syndrome). The movie The Little Mermaid does not show that Ariel has any other medical conditions. She is not injured in any way besides the loss of her voice which was traded for human legs. This physical change was one done by a witch and the previous symptoms already existed and did not