Eve White Identity Disorder

Carol White’s Lack of Identity In the film Safe, directed by Todd Haynes in 1995, Carol White becomes environmentally sick. She experiences seizures, dizziness, and nose bleeding from chemical fumes and toxins around her. The main character, Carol lives in San Fernando Valley, California where she and her husband live a nearly perfect lifestyle. Carol does not work outside of the home, she is simply a homemaker.

The movie I chose for this paper is titled Frankie & Alice. The main character, played by Halle Berry, was named Frankie. Frankie had a history of traumatic events that took place as she was growing up which resulted in her being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Frankie was unaware that she had any type of disorder until she was picked up by police and chose to receive treatment instead of going to jail. The paper includes a synopsis of the movie, along with an analysis of the symptoms Frankie’s character experienced to lead to her diagnosis. Also included are evidences about dissociative identity disorder and what may lead to its diagnoses in an individual. Prevalence of the diagnoses along with treatment selections for the diagnoses is also discussed.

The movie, Secret Window, is a psychological thriller that is based on a novella called Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King. Like most psychological thrillers, the character that has a mental illness is portrayed in a very exaggerated and dramatic way. Some portrayals can be very accurate while others are simply for reeling in the audience. For the purpose of this paper, I will discuss the accuracy of David Koepp’s portrayal of Dissociative Identity Disorder in the main character of Secret Window, some symptoms that are clear and maybe not so clear, as well as treatment options for DID.

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

Although dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder) is extremely rare and difficult to diagnose, it seems to be awfully popular with numerous Hollywood interpretations. The Three Faces of Eve does a fairly admirable job of conveying the disorder even though information defining the illness was (and still is) limited at the time the movie was made.

In the film, “Frankie and Alice,” the viewer is not only able to see the manifestation of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) but also its momentary yet lasting effects on the life of a person living with it. The film also serves as a catalyst for discussing the nature of disassociation, why there is such a need for debate on dissociative episodes, and how DID challenges the very existence of a “personal identity.” One’s personal identity can be defined as having continuity and making possible the unification of “earlier and later parts of subjectivity and, viewed from the outside, of persons and lives” (Radden 133).

The disappearance and death of Maylin has created an awareness of not only her disappearance, but of many other Latina's who have gone missing. This article states that missing Latina's are not getting the news coverage they deserve. It also talks about how white women are innocent victims in disappearance scenarios, whereas black women and Latina's are involved in activities that in some form lead to their kidnapping and death. This article explains how more news coverage on missing women of color could make a difference in whether they are found alive or dead. This is something that is true because the more the public is informed on missing people the more they will be able to help out with these cases. This article is relevant to my topic because it will help support my claim on the lack of news coverage of missing women of color.

1. Anne Moody, or actually Essie Mae, childhood was quite rough at the start. At four years old she was getting beat by her Mama’s younger brother, and taking care of her infant sister. Soon after Essie Mae mother, Toosweet, gives birth to her third child, Essie Mae father leaves. Essie Mae has to deal with her father walking out on her family, start working at a young age, constantly moving, constantly being hungry, and then having a new man be her step dad, who she never gets along with.

In the movie ,The human experience, is 3 differents experiences from homeless to abused children and many african people being sick. The experience the young man went through can really change how someone feels and change their mind set. This helps society a little by seeing other peoples point of view and how their is people who have it worst and we should value life and how we need to find who we are. We find healing and forgiveness by loving our self by valuing life how it is and making the best of it. We need to find our self to forgive and to heal to know that life is a treasure. We do mistakes and learn but sometimes we should have our feet in the ground and appreciate everything we have and the people that surround us because everyone is valuable.

Mrs. White is a timid and mousy woman, who suffers from recurring blackouts and headaches. She suffers from "Dissociative Identity Disorder".

The identity crisis is not only affecting the main character but also his father. The example underline the notion of how our individual identity does not define who we are but how others see us that actually make up our identity. This theme of being yourself is not always how society will perceive you is also explored in the movie

The presence of dissociative identity disorder in the media is more common than one may presume. In the media, the portrayal of the disorder is very negative. The way the media shows the disorder only builds on the stigmatization already made for the disorder which is harmful and negative towards the people diagnosed with the disorder. Some of these portrayals include the movie Split and the television show Criminal Minds. Both of these and many other films show negative portrayals of people diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder.

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In my opinion, the movie did a good job making the character interesting and very defined when it comes to his personalities. The depiction of the different personalities was executed very well. The fact that he chose to have drastically different personalities and with every personality even the needs of the body changed for example, the vision becoming bad or becoming diabetic. But, I don’t think it was a good depiction of a real-life person with dissociative identity disorder. In real-life, someone with this disorder/disability doesn’t have that drastic of a change or it’s not that noticeable whereas the movie makes very exaggerated. People who really have this disorder/disability don’t have such dramatic personalities nor are violent or can be danger to society. The depiction of the

The director did a fantastic job writing this film. All of the points he wanted to get to the audience, I feel did. The actor, Sean Paul, did a wonderful job impersonating someone with a developmental disability. The director’s goal was to have people that were his targeted audience, try and think about what they take for granted and show that people need love and support just as much as anyone else that is important to them. People never know what other stories other people have and are going through. It is always nice to be kind and to be a supportive human being.