Diagnosis Of Lady Macbeth

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Diagnose of lady Macbeth
I diagnose lady Macbeth with post-traumatic stress disorder because of the symptoms that I found that describe her and the way she acts. Lady Macbeth show trouble concentrating because of the way she acts and in the movie look like she was scared and shaking. Lady Macbeth be feeling overwhelm because she acts like she doesn’t what she be doing. Then when lady Macbeth was trying to scrub off the blood from her hands and to take away the evidence. When lady Macbeth was sleep walking and didn’t even know it.
Lady Macbeth has lost her senses and suffers from sleeping walking. She seems to have also a mania regarding her feeling of having blood in her hands. Lady Macbeth suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder after

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