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Antwone Fisher Movie Essay

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During the movie “Antwone Fisher” it’s clear that Antwone presents with several overlapping disorders, post traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorders and depression, as a matter of fact, he suffered psychologically, verbally, physically and sexually early in his childhood surly the were the causes of his disorders. Also, he was deprived of several psychological developmental stages, trust vs mistrust (oral), autonomy vs shame and doubt (anal), initiative vs guilt (phallic), industry vs inferiority (latency), intimacy vs isolation (genital), as a young child was the cause of his neurodevelopmental disorders. For those reasons, Antwone adopted a vast number of defenses, ego defense mechanisms to be exact to cope with his disorders …show more content…

Without cause or reason Miss Tate would address him using degrading forms to address him as well as his foster brothers. Also, beating him with a wet towel, threatening to burn him and tying him up and leaving him in the dark basement are the causes of his developing the anxiety. Antwone displayed the signs of worry, the worrying as to if it was going to be a “chummy day”, his next beating when and if they were coming and if he would be adopted even worrying about why and where was his mother. In addition, he was irritable during his adolescent years, not being able to control his negative outburst when confronted of his sexuality or something as simple and general conversation something like “hello”. Further, he suffered from depression signs are sadness, feelings of worthlessness, guilt, social withdrawal, and loss of sleep. Combination of sadness, feeling of worthlessness and guilt are from his abandonment of his mother she never came to claim him once out of prison, causing guilt as to what could have he done that she would not come get him not feeling adequate to be loved. Suffering tragic events cause the loss of sleep antwone would have dreams that caused him to be awaked from his sleep because he was reliving events of his

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