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The movie Girl, Interrupted is about a young woman, Susanna Kaysen who is admitted to a mental hospital following a suicide attempt. While inside, she goes on a journey of self-discovery, acceptance and gains an understanding of what it truly means to be “crazy”. Ultimately she is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and after an eighteen month stay and deemed “healthy” she is released. Susanna also forms close relationships with the other patients but the film primary focus is on…

pulled in different directions. In one of her poems titled “Dead End,” she describes the life of a woman who experiences domestic abuse through her perspective. “I said, ‘Divorce me from this crap, this steady diet / of abuse with cereal, abuse / with vodka and tomato juice…’/ Staying was my way of hitting back,” (Glück). The woman is portrayed as the victim in the relationship but she feels that her staying with the man is a way for her to fight back against his abuse. She says things like…

1. One of the rules that author Kay Redfield Jamison lists “for the gracious acceptance of Lithium into your life” in Unquiet Mind is: “Accommodate to a certain lack of enthusiasm and bounce that you once had. Try not to think about all the wild nights you once had. Probably best not to have had those nights anyway” (p. 98). She, throughout the book, mentions enjoying the manic episodes she experienced for they were when she felt the most productive and most confident. It was during her manic…

The movie Girl Interrupted directed by James Mangold is based on a book written by Susanna Kaysen with the same title. Girl Interrupted is a movie that provides the viewer an objective and in-depth look at the downside borderline depression and lots of mental illness that Americans battle daily confused, insecure, and lost within a rapidly changing world. The movie depicts Susanna the main character as an unsympathetic teenager just out of high school that does not have a clue as to what she is…

He boozes, he cruises, and he loses. Think about the people he loved, and how he felt about them. Would he want to ruin their future? Would he want to leave them with a heartache? If no, then do not drink and drive! People all over the world do it and thousands of people die yearly because of a poor decision. If he is going to drink, he should think about how he is getting home and all the other innocent people. While it does not always turn out bad, drinking and driving is the worst thing…

Hello, class, I am Dr. Amelie Scotsman and I will be your teacher this semester. I am a behavioral psychologist and have taught students for the last 16 years. I got my degree at New York University, but you all probably don’t care about any of this. Let’s get to the point. This semester we will focus on controversial social issues. For our first lecture, we are going to discuss lowering the drinking age. Think about this, all of you kids can vote, drive a car, fight for our country, and even…

In some cases, they were raised in environments in which their beliefs about themselves and their environment were frequently undervalued (Martinson, 2002). Their attitudes towards their family, friends and loved ones can change drastically from idealization which is admiration and love to devaluation which is intense anger and hate. Individuals with BPD are highly sensitive to rejection, reacting with anger and misery to leaving on a vacation, business trip, or a sudden change in plans. BPD…

A few things that stuck out to me while reading Being Mortal were social changes, the role of geriatricians, and societies perception of old people. At the very beginning of the book Gawande talks about an Indian family. When the eldest in the family continues to grow older and older the family centers their lives on him. This isn’t true just for this family but for many families. The goal is to allow the grandparents or the great-grandparents and so on to live their most productive and…

ambiguous if what exactly was wrong with her. Regardless of the legitimacy of her diagnosis, she did behave in ways that indicated abnormality. When she attempts to kill herself by taking an entire bottle of aspirin followed by an entire bottle of vodka, it reveals a sense of…

When Edward Bulwer-Lytton coined the phrase, “the pen is mightier than the sword,” he likely didn’t have the Sharpie Magnum in mind, much less its use in Sioux Falls’ own Battle for the Arts. Intended as a witty turn-of phrase, “the pen is mightier than the sword” has taken on new meaning where a Sharpie Magnum is the weapon of choice. With a keen eye, a skilled hand and a time limit, artists are wielding the mighty maker for victory in Sioux Falls own Battle for the Arts. Currently in it’s…