Girl, Interrupted, begins with Susana at Claymoore Psychiatric Hospital, then jumps back and forth between memories on how Susana became to live at Claymoore Psychiatric Hospital. She remembers being at the hospital emergency room, then talking to Dr. Crumble, her fathers’ friend, a psychiatrist, then she is at her fathers’ birthday party and jump back to Dr. Crumble. Dr. Crumble finally tells her, she is hurting everyone around her but doesn’t tell her what he thinks is the problem, just that she needs a rest. Susana can see from where she is talking to Dr. Crumble that her mother is there and is taking a suitcase out of the trunk of the car. Her mother seems almost lost or is overly stressed by the situation. Dr. Potts tells her it is easier
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Melvin Potts he asks if she is feeling bad or depressed. In the next session, we see her parents are there with Dr. Melvin Potts and her mother is telling a story about when Susana was young and had to be strapped into the back seat of a car for a long trip. During this session Susana finds out her diagnosis is Borderline Personality Disorder. Dr. Potts tells her, it is not uncommon in young women, Susana asks if it is hereditary and he replies that it is 5 times more common when a parent has borderline. When Susana is asking the question, she is looking directly at her mother. Her mother looks to break down and needs to leave. Susana’s father and Dr. Potts take her mother to the car, where they are seen having a private chat. When several of the girls break into Dr. Potts office to read their files, Susana learns that upon admission the diagnostic impression is that she has 1. Psychoneurotic depression reaction. 2. High intelligent, but in denial of her condition. 3. Personality pattern disturbance, resistant, mixed type. Her diagnosis is Borderline Personality Disorder, which she knew but was lead to believe by her previous meeting with Dr. Potts that there may be more. He didn’t want to tell her because it might hurt her
Melvin Potts he asks if she is feeling bad or depressed. In the next session, we see her parents are there with Dr. Melvin Potts and her mother is telling a story about when Susana was young and had to be strapped into the back seat of a car for a long trip. During this session Susana finds out her diagnosis is Borderline Personality Disorder. Dr. Potts tells her, it is not uncommon in young women, Susana asks if it is hereditary and he replies that it is 5 times more common when a parent has borderline. When Susana is asking the question, she is looking directly at her mother. Her mother looks to break down and needs to leave. Susana’s father and Dr. Potts take her mother to the car, where they are seen having a private chat. When several of the girls break into Dr. Potts office to read their files, Susana learns that upon admission the diagnostic impression is that she has 1. Psychoneurotic depression reaction. 2. High intelligent, but in denial of her condition. 3. Personality pattern disturbance, resistant, mixed type. Her diagnosis is Borderline Personality Disorder, which she knew but was lead to believe by her previous meeting with Dr. Potts that there may be more. He didn’t want to tell her because it might hurt her