Interpersonally, she had withdrawn from others and socially isolated. She reported having difficulties in forming meaningful relationships with her parents and peers at the college. Her behaviors were inactive causing inability to work or live independently. The hallucinations, delusions, and cognitions she is currently suffering from severely limits her self-care functioning. Her coping methods of avoidant behaviors increase in the negative symptoms to deal with stress that in turn causes increased anxiety, negative cognitions, and psychotic
The film Little Miss Sunshine follows the story of an unconventional family of 6 that goes on an impromptu road trip for the chance to have the young daughter compete in a state beauty pageant. Through a series of mishaps on the trip, each family member begins to understand one another slightly better. As the film revolves around the family’s trip, the influence of the agent of family is most directly shown on the socialization of each of the characters. Throughout the film more is revealed of each character’s self-identity and self-concept. However, these parts of each character are partially the product of their interactions with each other. Since they are a family, they spend a great amount of their time together, which is exhibited in
Alice faced severe challenges throughout the movie. However, she was a college professor, who was well-known and very intelligent. Alice had a wonderful husband with 3 beautiful children, 2 girls and one son. Alice family was the most important thing to her as a wife and mother. Alice was always on the go as a professor and wife. Alice loss her mother and sister in a car wreck a year ago on January 19th and her father passed away due to being an alcoholic. In the beginning of the movie Alice well aware of her surrounds and competent to her priorities. Alice was a peaceful, sweet, and humble young lady, who had a lot of respect for individuals. As time went by, Alice became fearful of the episodes she were experiencing. However, she felt it had to do with menopause. With that being said, she never took it seriously of the traumatic episodes that she came in contact with on a daily basis. Thoroughly, Alice begin to realize as time went by that her episodes begin to get worse and she start experiencing hallucinations. Alice experienced many different events of losing memory. Alice enjoyed exercising every morning. One particular morning, Alice went out to do her daily exercise, while do so Alice breath got heavier and heavier to obtain. Alice stop to caught her breath, in the process of trying to caught her breath, everything around her was spinning. Alice forgot where she was at that moment and had to give herself time to come back to reality. She became fearful and realized
Alice has an overbearing mother who is very critical of her. This has obviously put a strain on their relationship. Though much of the dynamics did not play out on screen it was implied that a rocky relationship exists between Alice and her mother whereas the opposite was true between her and her father. Alice has a lot of internalized frustration and anguish over her relationship with her parents and her family, especially Michael. She drinks to suppress her true feelings and control her anxiety as much as possible. The family as a whole is really struggling with boundaries and this is leading to triangulation. These are normal patterns of a dysfunctional family. No one in the Green family had a clear identity (not even Amy, the nanny; her role should have been clearly defined). These are signs of diffused boundaries and enmeshment. Each member was stuck in the same position and there was no room for individual growth and freedom until they went to treatment.
She stated that anxiety started after high school when she felt pressure to go to college. There is no evidence to support that client has learning disabilities. Hannah reported that she thought the change would help improve her life. She stated that she thought moving out on her own would shift her into independence. However, client reports that her anxiety has been worse. Reportedly, she has difficulty spending too much time alone. Hannah recalled her recent experience meeting with friends at a coffee shop and reported that during the entire outing she experienced persistent thoughts of going home. She stated concerns about the possibility of losing her friends due to the anxiety. Hannah reflected on how social life when she lived with her parent and reports her new social difficulties. Client reported that her anxiety is stopping her from making friends. Hannah works as a freelance photographer. Anxiety has been stopping her photography. Hannah reported that she has been receiving less work and took the responsibility for the decline in work. Client reports some of her anxiety symptoms as shaking, hot flashes and sweating. In addition she reports having many flooding thoughts that others may think she is stupid, she can’t do her job, she’s an idiot, weirdo, or everyone is looking at her. She reported that those thoughts make her feel she should give up and she is an idiot. Hannah reports that when anxious while working, she has the tendency to clinch tight onto the camera. Reportedly, her shaking interferes with her taking photos. Client reported that had resorted to wearing black to work and many places to conceal the evidence of her sweating due to her
At the beginning she is angry and depressed with herself because she is forgetting everything that she needs to remember every day, such as a simple and common word. Her emotional changes also affect her relationships with others and her own feelings, because she has a negative behavior with others when she yells or says a word of anger. I think is the way how she shows that she is trying to avoid what is happening in her life with an incurable disease that changes the direction of her life. She feels frustration about her memory problems because gradually she has a restriction of freedom that means she loses privacy and independence in each activity she wants to do. We cannot imagine what she is feeling when she is losing everything she learned, all the way back to basic activities such as the skill to walk, eat, or even use the bathroom. Alice feels frustrated about what she is living, because it is a way to say she is stigmatized with this disease as though she were already dead. On the other hand, and in a positive way, she begins to enjoy her life when she shares more time with her family. She feels curiosity about a future of her children and grandchild, and then she wants to live to enjoy everything, despite she would “be incapable of remembering and executing this kind of plan.” (Genova 118). She creates a simple test and games to remember simple things of her life, and she can
Alice notes of experiencing these symptoms since childhood. Alice states that people scare her, especially when she is around strong men. Alice reports feeling cold, sweaty, and troubling nervousness when around man who are attracted to her. She states she has an inferiority complex and knows how to put yourself down. Alice main concern is feeling equal with others and not always apologetic for her existence. She does not want to suffer from anxiety and guilt, and start thinking of herself as a good person. The client all as noted she 's loner,
I'm reading Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella, The book is about this one girl named Audrey and she has extreme social anxiety, she has two siblings one older brother named frank and one little brother named felix, her mother is always worried about frank, felix and her getting addicted to electronics so one day she finally loses it and almost throw’s franks computer out of the window on the second floor of their home. And her father mostly just listens to what her mother says and makes sure that the children listen to her too.
The way in which Molly decided to handle the difficulties and stresses in her life have contributed to her current health issues. One factor being the way she dealt with husband’s death. As a result of isolating herself from family and friends in addition to being stressed about her finances she developed depression. She also felt like a failure for not being able to afford to live in a better part of town which was another catalyst for the anger and anxiety that Molly felt. With these obstacles in her life, it has been hard for her to remain positive. She feels as if bad things just keep happening and she has no control over any of it. Molly feels so much negativity inside and for her the only way it manifests itself is through isolation,
About the nervous breakdown scene at the movie, we can consider why it happened at the movies, not any other public places. Through this scene, we get the notion what causes her to panic. It is a place , where she sits among young couples, “scented and sibilant in the half dark, their paired backs in silhouette delicate and sleek, their slim, quick bodies awkward, divinely young”; besides it is the same place where “the screen glowed silver,
Allison has experienced a few panic attacks in her life, but has not had a panic attack in more than two years. But she still carries Xanax with her everywhere she goes, just in case she needs it. Ever since she was 7 years old, she has worried about random issues. Allison remembers walking through her house at 7 years old, checking on all of the appliances to make sure that they were all unplugged before everyone fell asleep in fear that a fire would break out and burn the house down. Allison was also worried as a 3rd grader about her mother dying any day from cancer, since her mother was a smoker. When Allison was 16, she had great difficulty with learning how to drive in fear that she would be involved in a car accident. Indeed, Allison was involved in 2 car accidents, none of which were her fault.
A major influence on Alice's identity was when she was a young child and her grandmother would tell her stories about events that occurred in Cambodia. In Alice's teenage years, her beloved grandmother has a stroke, developed disabilities and eventually had passed away. It is around this time where serious psychological problems occur for Alice. This almost forces her into a mental state in which she knows she does not fit in with the Australian culture. She believed she had to do everything she could to change that otherwise Alice knew she would break down mentally. Alice was forced to attempt to fit the social standards of Australia.
Annie states that the Agoraphobia is a result of her overthinking how people view her. Throughout the interview, Annie often demonstrates how she thinks others view her—“why did she just run out” or “she is crazy”. During the interview, it becomes clear that Annie is mainly afraid of judgment by other people.
In 1932, her mother died and she ended up moving in with her aunt but her grades dropped and she skipped school very often. Because of this bad behavior, she was sent to a special reform school (a penal institution for juveniles) but didn’t stay for long. By 1934, she was trying to make a living while living on the streets. Ella Fitzgerald still had dreams of becoming a singer/dancer in the back of her mind. One day, she worked up the courage to audition for an amateur contest at Harlem’s Apollo Theatre. She won of course and thanks to this, she won a $25 dollar prize which was a lot during those times.
Throughout the book there is a lot of advice, for example when Penny shares ways to deal with anxiety. This is a very common issue in our society today. Zoe has talked about her troubles with anxiety through her blog