Psychological Disorders In Forrest Gump

The Premise Forrest Gump is a movie detailing the life of an Alabama born man with a low I.Q. In a very realistic fashion, the audience follows Forrest as he grows through his life. Although the movie is a simplistic picture of the life of a single man, it also somewhat satirically details many of the events the fictional character would have lived through and provides a life-like picture of many people with psychological disorders in the acquaintances Forrest makes through his adventures. One of these acquaintances is Jenny Curran, who became Gump’s friend on his first day of school. Befriending him in a time where children were cruel to the kids who were different, Jenny quickly became Gump’s closest friend and ultimately the woman he loved. …show more content…
Throughout her life she expressed the following five criteria for this disorder: 1. “Significant efforts to avoid imagined abandonment”, 2. “A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation”, 3. “Impulsivity in at least two areas that are self-damaging”, 4. “Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior”, and 5. “Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms” (Barlow …show more content…
Jenny experienced repeated abuse at the hands of her widower father, but she was also abandoned by her mother due to her early death. She could have felt that her mother abandoned her with her father, and she could have also been traumatized by her father’s