The movie that was chosen to watch was called Swim Fan, and the main character had borderline personality disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder is a very hard mood disorder to diagnose because they have traits of their personality that make them seem like they are really high functioning individuals(Paige)…. Most of the time for this particular mood disorder, it takes a person to form a friendship with the individual with the disorder for them to recognize the symptoms of the disorder. Some of the most noticeable symptoms of this disorder that is easily recognizable would be, “impulse and risky behavior, unstable, intense, volatile relationships, and having an unstable mood. Others that would not be as noticeable would be fear of being
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Some of the symptoms that Madison had in the movie was an unstable mood because she was happy when Ben was giving her attention, then when he stopped talking to her she would alter from being mad at him to being happy with him again. She also showed chameleon behavior as well because she did not show she was obsessive of Ben around Josh, but then she would be with Ben she would show signs of being obsessed to be with him. Madison also had impulsive and risky behavior because she snuck into a hospital, and pretended to be a nurse when switched the medicine to get Ben fired, also by stealing Ben’s car and running Amy off the road, and escaping from the police, then she snuck into Ben’s house hurt him and his mom, then finally she kidnaped Amy and tried to kill her. The last symptom that she showed was the fear of being alone, because she told Ben about the guy she had back at home, she constantly tried being with Ben, then when that did not work, she went for his friend Josh that she did not even like, just so she was not alone. The disorder in the movie was portrayed correctly, and to me, I found that it fit the description that I had in my notes. I feel this way because, Madison showed that she seemed very high functioning in the beginning, but towards the end you could really see her obsessive behavior and other traits of having borderline personality
Some of the symptoms that Madison had in the movie was an unstable mood because she was happy when Ben was giving her attention, then when he stopped talking to her she would alter from being mad at him to being happy with him again. She also showed chameleon behavior as well because she did not show she was obsessive of Ben around Josh, but then she would be with Ben she would show signs of being obsessed to be with him. Madison also had impulsive and risky behavior because she snuck into a hospital, and pretended to be a nurse when switched the medicine to get Ben fired, also by stealing Ben’s car and running Amy off the road, and escaping from the police, then she snuck into Ben’s house hurt him and his mom, then finally she kidnaped Amy and tried to kill her. The last symptom that she showed was the fear of being alone, because she told Ben about the guy she had back at home, she constantly tried being with Ben, then when that did not work, she went for his friend Josh that she did not even like, just so she was not alone. The disorder in the movie was portrayed correctly, and to me, I found that it fit the description that I had in my notes. I feel this way because, Madison showed that she seemed very high functioning in the beginning, but towards the end you could really see her obsessive behavior and other traits of having borderline personality