Disorder of Donnie Darko, choose a movie with a main character that has a psychological disorder and give a full diagnosis.

The movie What About Bob? (Frank Oz, 1991) is an excellent representation of an experience with a person who lives with a mental disorder. The plot follows the relationship of Bob and his therapist, Dr. Leo Marvin. Bob’s abnormal behaviors can be seen throughout the movie along with Dr. Marvin’s reaction to them. Following their initial interview, Dr. Marvin plans to meet with Bob to start therapy when he returns from vacation, but Bob feels he cannot be without a therapist for such a long time. Out of desperation, Bob finds the location of Dr. Marvin’s vacation home and follows the Marvin family there.

A person suffering from a dissociative identity disorder has two or more separate identities or personality states (Coon & Mitterer, 2009). In the movie Mr. Brooks, Earl Brooks is a wealthy, successful businessman who recently was honored as "Man of the Year." Brooks is also a serial killer, known as the "Thumbprint Killer" by the police. He is encouraged by his id, manifested as an alter ego who he refers to as Marshall, whom only Brooks can see or hear. Marshall loves to kill, and even talking about it gets him excited. Earl Brooks is extremely neat and tidy. In his studio, all his clothes are neatly hung up and put away. Therefore, Earl suffers from both dissociative identity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The movie begins with Hopkins’s life in ruins as depression takes over because Frank has to constantly hide his true self, as he watches

Throughout the entire story there is a recurring theme of an ominous “darkness outside” (Baldwin 279). First the darkness was something the children needed to be protected from, like “one of the incursions of darkness endured by his people has been the murderous running over by whites of his father’s brother, a musician” (Werlock). Part of what the “darkness” refers to is the oppression Sonny’s parents lived through, and the tragic loss of his father’s brother due to racism. Sonny’s mother explained that their father “never in his life seen anything as dark as that road after the lights of that car had gone away” (Baldwin 281) and all she wanted to do was to protect her children from the darkness her husband experienced. Later in the story, once Sonny starts doing drugs, he had found his own darkness he needs to escape.

The portrayal of people being sickly creatures has been used in Hollywood film for a very long time. This has been in the endeavor of putting the viewing public in the shoes of the patient and entertain them with over the top portrayals of disease. For patients that are women in particular this has been achieved by defining them along the lines of vague terms such as them being over emotional and unstable. Despite the advancement experienced by the society, women have not yet fully seen the goal of equality realize fruition. With the expansion of the psychiatric and psychological terminologies, there now additional ways via which mental illness can be ascribed as a weakness for men and women portrayed in Hollywood film. This is best

Bob displays many symptoms of being an obsessive compulsive disorder owner. At the very beginning of the movie Bob is repeating to himself that, "I feel good. I feel great. I feel wonderful" multiple times. Bob is also trying to leave his apartment but he cannot because he is scared of the outside, he paces back multiple times before leaving just his own apartment, to leave the apartment building Bob uses a tissue to touch the door knob and also uses a tissue to shake his psychiatrist's hand. These are great examples of obsessive compulsive disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder has many symptoms and one of them is a fear of germs. Within just the first ten minutes of this movie you can tell he has obsessive compulsive disorder.

“The basic dilemma of all human existence is that each element of the psychic apparatus makes demands upon us that are incompatible with the other two. Inner conflict is inevitable”. Richard Kelly’s careful utilization of the tangent universe in Donnie Darko, as well and the characters within it, are reflective of Freuds aspects of the human psyche, and the unconsciousness mind. Freud’s structure of the mind is composed of the id, ego, and superego and each are represented by one the main characters in the film. At the conscious level of the human psyche emotional, physical, and spiritual awareness is fully realized. While at the unconscious level, these aspects still influence and drive the individual, yet the individual is unaware of their presence. In the beginning of the film, Donnie is the black sheep of his family, a lonely outcast with no defined purpose in life. As the film progresses Donnie’s level of consciousness cultivates parallel to development of the movie’s plot, as he fulfills his destiny as the living receiver.

Donnie Darko In recent years, Hollywood has specialised in churning out mainstream trash; generic fodder not even fit for the cutting room floor. Yet despite these movies' shortcomings, they continue to enjoy success at the box office. Sequel upon sequel, photo fit remake upon photo fit remake, frequently taking the box office by storm whilst simultaneously relegating smaller independent projects to the now relatively unheard-of arthouse cinemas. The tragedy is that the independent filmmakers are often those with the most talent; the most creativity; the most flair.

According to (Nedelman 2017) Dr. Garrett Marie Deckel psychiatry and specialist on dissociation identity disorder at the Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine stated that individual with identity disorders are not violent like it portraits character of Kevin Wendell Crumbs in the movie “Split” displayed. During the interview Dr. Deckel disagreed with psychology aspect displayed in the movie. Dr. Deckel stated that there were minor or no evidence of identity disorder within the movie; however, in some part of the movie the character seems to battle with some type of identity disorder according to the American Psychiatric Association definition for dissociation identity disorder. (Brown 2017) On the contrary of Dr. Deckel’s opinion, psychologist

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) remains a largely misunderstood diagnosis, and one of the things people need to understand is that dissociative identity disorder doesn’t make you violent. Previously known as multiple personality disorder, or MPD, DID has been the topic of several television shows, books, and Hollywood films — including the new movie Split, set to be released later this month. These portrayals, however, are not always accurate. Characters with DID are often portrayed as violent and dangerous, but that is not the reality. Dissociative identity disorder doesn’t make you violent.

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“Yeah, because you're bipolar and you're hard to stay friends with. People are just gonna fall by the wayside. And that's life- for you.” (“No Friend Left Behind”, Lady Dynamite). Americans at an average watch about 5 hours of television a day, making television a principal factor in shaping how the US views the world. “5.7 million American adults have bipolar disorder”, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (National Institute of Mental Health), and yet there are very few prime-time programs that include characters living with bipolar. Adding to the lack of bipolar characters both fictional and non-fictional, even less are depicted accurately. However, one show gives a positive realistic depiction of the everyday life of an

The movie I have watched is split, which is a thrilling horror movie about the kidnapping of three teenage girls by a villain named Kevin who is diagnosed with a split personality. Split personality is a multiple personality disorder or Dissociative identity disorder which is a mental condition in which a person has two or more personalities. Dissociative Identity Disorder is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as "the presence of two or more distinct identities… that recurrently take control of the person's behavior. . and in which there is an inability to recall important information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetting" (4th ed. ; American Psychiatric Association, 1994).

Andrew Laeddis from the film Shutter Island (Medavov, Messer, Fischer, & Scorsese, 2010) is a roughly 30-year-old Caucasian American male living in Boston. Although his education and family history is unknown, it is known that he was a former US Marshal and also a highly decorated army veteran from World War 2 (WW2). His marital status is a widower, as he murdered his wife Dolores, after which he was administered to Ashecliffe hospital for the criminally insane.

From the beginning of the film, we see that Ofelia is placed under extreme pressure. Her father has just passed away, her mother is engaging in sexual activities with a power-hungry tyrant, and her old life has been ripped away from her. Although we don’t know how old she is, we presume her to be between the ages of seven to ten: far too young to be dealing with so much stress for it not be psychologically damaging. Unfortunately, this transition proves to be too much for young Ofelia, and her imaginative and unstable mind shortly takes over, turning her into a psychopath.