Dependent Personality Disorder is characterized by “a pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior” (APA, 2013, p. 675). This description aptly defines the personality of Buster Bluth from the television show Arrested Development. Buster has difficulty making everyday decisions, has issues with expressing disagreement, seeks out another close relationship once one goes awry, goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurture, has anxiety when faced with difficult decisions, and his social relationships are limited. All these traits are symptoms of Dependent Personality Disorder (APA, 2013, p. 675). Based on this, Buster Bluth should be diagnosed with Dependent Personality Disorder. The first symptom …show more content…
Buster started out with a dependence on his mother, Lucille. Lucille was trying to push him away and so Buster found a relationship with Lucille two, his mother’s friend and rival. Lucille two is around the same age as Lucille and Buster starts a romantic relationship with her (). Buster eventually wants to move in with Lucille two because he has become jealous that she is bonding with another man. When Lucille two confronts him, he tells her “you’re replacing my mother” (). This leads to Lucille two ending the relationship. Buster tries to go back to his mother but she will not let him back in so he goes to stay with is brother Michael (). Buster even tries to sleep in the same bed with Michael (). Clearly, Buster cannot live on his own and always has to have a dependent relationship with someone. He goes from Lucille to Lucille two to Michael. This type of behavior shows that he cannot be independent and is another consideration to diagnose him with Dependent Personality …show more content…
These include anxiety when faced with decisions and limited social relations (). Buster is not often asked to decide things or to take sides but when he is, he has an anxiety attack. The family needs Buster’s skills as a cartographer to help them navigate a boat and with everyone relying on him to say where to family needs to go, he has a panic attack (). He even went as far as putting himself into a coma just to avoid testifying against his father (). These types of behavior severely hinder his everyday functioning and decision-making. In addition to this, Buster has a very small social circle. His only true friend is his mother and he sometimes associates with his other family members. The only person with whom Buster has a relationship outside of the family is Lucille two (). These associated features help to strengthen the cause for diagnosis of Buster
The following is a case study of a two-year-old male client, Charles Finster, Jr, also known as Chuckie, who suffers from anxiety disorder. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-Fifth Edition, general anxiety disorder is characterized by persistent, excessive, and unrealistic worry about everyday things. Chuckie is the son of Charles “Chas” Finster and the late Melinda Finster, who passed away a few months after Chuckie was born. Chuckie has red hair, buckteeth, freckles, and big, purple glasses. He is often seen hanging around his group of friends who range from ages 1 to 3, which makes him the second oldest in the group. He is the only baby in his group of friends without a mother, until he gets a stepmother, Kira, later on. Chuckie is a target of bullying, along with his friends, of the 3 year old.
himself to cheat the Hale family into giving him money. This causes the relationship to be
It all begins when Blanche Morton, moves in with her sister, Kate Jerome’s family, as a result of her husband passing away. Instead of being an independent woman, and taking care of her family, she depends on her brother-in-law Jack for; financial support, guidance, and the nurturing of her children, as if they were his obligation. Unfortunately this situation causes a great deal of tension between
Bob Wiley has the criteria for a diagnosis of having dependent personality disorder, panic disorder with agoraphobia, OCD, hypochondria, and multiple phobias. The criteria to be diagnosed with dependent personality disorder includes having difficulties making decisions without seeking advice from others, the need for others to take control and make decisions for them, having trouble saying no, experiencing difficulty starting projects without assistance from others, having the need for support which causes one to behave in risky ways, having fears of abonnement, and feeling helpless when alone (Psychology Today).The criteria for panic disorder with agoraphobia include that a person experiences a deep fear when put in certain situations such as using public transportation, standing in a line, being in closed or open areas, and being alone when not in their home (Psych Central).
Lucille and her younger brother, Fred, resented him, and were still clinging to the thought of their father. Ed was a heavy drinker and had a weakness for gambling. Fearing the effect of his drunken behavior on her children, Desiree decided to leave her growing children behind while she and Ed moved to Detroit, to look for work. Desiree foolishly allowed her children to move in with Ed’s parents, who were very abusive and disciplined Lucille and her brother cruelly. At age 11, Lucille and her brother eventually reunited with their mother, when she and Ed moved back to Jamestown (Higham,
The dream that Mama and Ruth shared was to move into a bigger and better house. Mama had shared that dream with her husband who was never able to live it out. “Mama: "Rat trap" -- yes, that's all it is. I remember just as well the day me and Big Walter moved in here. Hadn't been married but two weeks and wasn't planning on living here no more than a year. We was going to set away, little by little, don't you know, and buy a little place out in Morgan Park. We had even picked out the house. Looks right dumpy today. But Lord, child, you should know all the dreams I had 'bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little
Of course, Mama is very angry when she hears this and she then learns that Willy has not opened any checking account as she instructed him. So, in order to recoup his loss, Will says that he will call back Mr. Lindner from the new neighborhood who offers to buy them out so that they will not move into the white subdivision. Now, the family is very upset with Walter Lee for his surrender to Mr. Lindner. But, before the man comes, Mama tells him,
The main feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive.
Big Daddy, an old man with cancer, plays favorites with members of his family and dislikes his wife. For example, when Big Daddy is talking with Brick, and finds Mae at the door, Big Daddy says, “I don’t want you, I want some privacy here… with my son Brick”(62). Big Daddy only likes Brick and shows disgust for everyone else. Even though they are family, Big Daddy acts like they are the scum of the earth. Furthermore, when Big Mama tries to walk into Big Daddy and Brick’s talk, Big Daddy doesn’t let her in and says that “all [he] ask[s] of that woman is that she leave [him] alone [and that] she makes [him] sick”(71-2). The woman he vowed to be with forever is now completely repulsive to him. Big Daddy can’t even
Ted Bundy is known to be the worst serial killer in U.S. History. In the 1970's, Ted raped and murdered women in at least five different states. Bundy eventually confessed to thirty murders, although the actual total remains unknown. Theodore Robert Bundy was born on November 24th, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont to Eleanor Louise Cowell, a 22 year old single woman. Ted's mom never told him much about his father other than that he was in the armed forces and that they never were really together. Bundy had a difficult childhood and was pretty much an wanted by his mother. After being left in foster care for two months, Eleanor decided to have her parents raise Ted and make him and everyone believe that they were his adopted parents and
A personality disorder is an inflexible and is usually an unhealthy way of thinking or behaving (Carey). Dependent personality disorder is a mental illness which can cause individuals to feel as if they are incapable of living or doing something independently (Faith). Dependent personality disorder is a cluster c personality disorder (Faith). Cluster c personality disorders include all of the anxious or fearful types of disorders (Faith).
History is full of tales of famous criminals, with the most brutal committing mass murder, both political and domestic. However, what is now called 'serial ' killing is something different. While there are those who hurt people or murder for profit or motive, serials killers murder for neither; their murders are rage based and usually filled with no remorse. The most entertaining and engrossing stories are usually the ones portrayed on television shows and movies. Though sadly they are entertainment for some, they are reality for others. The person or people committing these murders have a deeper mental issue, usually one that would be diagnosed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th edition) as a Personality
Sometimes people undergo traumatic experiences in their lives that are either physical or mental and maybe even a combination of both. If the experience was so intense, and so horrible, that the mind didn’t want to remember it, or possibly didn’t know how to deal or cope with it, then that one experience has the power to split a person’s mind into “another personality”. If this happens, the other personality or personalities come out when a person who has MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) is put in a situation that he/she doesn’t know how to handle or feels that the other personality can handle it better. People suffering from MPD also have the risk of developing some
Ordinarily, people with Borderline Personality Disorder have unstable emotions that are difficult to regulate. This means there is a quick, strong and irregular shift in the state of mind and feelings, especially for Clementine. For instance, Clementine states that she “[applies her] personality in a paste.” Throughout the movie, her hair goes through a spectrum of colors: blue, orange, red and green, similar to her uncontrollable emotions. Each hair color reveals her sentiments between Joel and her relationship which mainly triggers her moods and insecurities. In the beginning and towards the end of the movie, Clementine's hair is a “blue ruin.” Blue gives a calming sense which is a new slate for her. As well, it symbolizes the sad and empty parts of her life. The beginning and the end, she is very open and
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5, American Psychiatric Association, 2013) defines personality disorders as a pattern of internal experience and behavior that greatly differs from what is normally expected in the person’s culture. They are also considered omnipresent and inflexible that is stable and causes both distress and impairment. Antisocial personality disorder is a severe disorder of personality. It is a disorder that helps compromise the dramatic, emotional, or erratic disorders, also known as the Cluster B disorders. The Cluster B disorders are also composed of borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and histrionic personality disorder. The