Susanna Borderline Personality Disorder

unstable relationships with other people in the hospital throughout the film and is friends with a few men whom she had sex with before she was admitted in the hospital. She has a strained relationship with her parents and she does not get along with them. She has a father is extremely angry, controlling, overbearing, and aggressive at times. Her mother’s mood flips back and forth from highs to lows and happiness to tears. This unstable environment caused to Susanna to have the symptoms, and this is an environmental experience she faces. Susann continues to have unstable relationships with her peers when she meets the girls in the hospital, especially a sociopath named Lisa (Mangold, J, 2000). Susanna keeps flipping her feelings about Lisa. One of her impulsive behaviors is drinking, and she drinks whenever she gets a headache. She believes that drinking will relieve the pain. This impulse leads her in hurting herself and have suicidal thoughts. For example, at the start of the film, she takes a bottle of aspirin with vodka because she feels she has a headache and she was sent away in an ambulance. While in the …show more content…
Susanna's behaviors and actions are an accurate representation of a person with Borderline Personality disorder. The environmental factors, which is her experiences with her distant parents caused her to have the symptoms. The best treatment plan for someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder like Susanna would be dialectical behavioral therapy which is behavioral treatment that involves getting people involved in groups, teach the person skills to control their emotions, improve relationships with others, and manage stress. Another form of treatment would be medication, such as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, which are Celexa, Lexapro, Zoloft, Prozac, Paxil,