Factitious Disorders: Portrayed on Film
The media portrays characters with psychological illness differently than a psychiatrist or psychologist. Movies are made to be sold and thus, characters with mental illness have a negative stereotype or more negative. They are not depicted, correctly. Almost having identical tittles, The Good Mother and The Glass House: The Good Mother are separate movies. The characters are portrayed having Factitious Disorder. The diagnostic and Statistical of Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth edition (DSM-IV) refers to Munchausen syndrome as “Factitious Disorder”.
In the Glass House: The Good Mother, the story follows Eve and Raymond Good. The couple had lost their son in a tragic accident and they adopt two kids. The kids are of different ages. One child is a little boy Ethan age 7 and a teenage girl Abby age 15. Abby finds out that their own child had died of mysterious ways and they had adopted two previous children. …show more content…
Cheryl takes in Melanie to help with her daughter (Jillian). Her daughter is sick and is suffering from a medical disease that makes her unable to tolerate proteins. Jillian dies in the movie but before dying warns Melanie to take care of her little sister. Jillian’s little sister later develops the same disease. Melanie questions the disease and asks Cheryl questions about it whether it is genetic. Melanie has an uneasy feeling about Cheryl because she finds syringes that Cheryl had hidden. Cheryl does not want anyone to get in the way of helping her daughter because she was a nurse. Melanie’s little sister gets so sick that she has to be taken to the hospital. At the hospital the main doctor cannot figure out where the illness is coming from and wants to send her to a specialist. Cheryl has an outburst at the doctor and claims he will never figure it out and wants her discharged immediately. The doctor advises against this but Cheryl
The media portrays characters with psychological illness differently than a psychiatrist or psychologist. Movies are made to be sold and thus, characters with mental illness have a negative stereotype or more negative. They are not depicted, correctly. Almost having identical tittles, The Good Mother and The Glass House: The Good Mother are separate movies. The characters are portrayed having Factitious Disorder. The diagnostic and Statistical of Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth edition (DSM-IV) refers to Munchausen syndrome as “Factitious Disorder”.
In the Glass House: The Good Mother, the story follows Eve and Raymond Good. The couple had lost their son in a tragic accident and they adopt two kids. The kids are of different ages. One child is a little boy Ethan age 7 and a teenage girl Abby age 15. Abby finds out that their own child had died of mysterious ways and they had adopted two previous children. …show more content…
Cheryl takes in Melanie to help with her daughter (Jillian). Her daughter is sick and is suffering from a medical disease that makes her unable to tolerate proteins. Jillian dies in the movie but before dying warns Melanie to take care of her little sister. Jillian’s little sister later develops the same disease. Melanie questions the disease and asks Cheryl questions about it whether it is genetic. Melanie has an uneasy feeling about Cheryl because she finds syringes that Cheryl had hidden. Cheryl does not want anyone to get in the way of helping her daughter because she was a nurse. Melanie’s little sister gets so sick that she has to be taken to the hospital. At the hospital the main doctor cannot figure out where the illness is coming from and wants to send her to a specialist. Cheryl has an outburst at the doctor and claims he will never figure it out and wants her discharged immediately. The doctor advises against this but Cheryl