Reign Over Me Psychology

was to tired from working all day and they were just going to eat in. She left for the store hoping

One of my self-defeating emotional patterns is that I worry that people stereotype me because of my race. I remember I had this emotional patterns a bit differently when I was in my own country, “IRAN”. When I was in Iran I worried that people stereotype me because of my religious beliefs. Since my religion was minority, many people don't like to hang out with me or in some cases they threaten me to change my religious beliefs or els. Although my fear was not unreasonable at the time,having this self-defeating emotional patterns crushed my self-esteem and stopped me to achieve my goals. After cogitating about the undesirable effects it can have on my life I start fighting this patterns. Unfortunately ever since I moved to the U.S I worry about

Chapter 10 is over personality. Personality is described as a pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world. The book goes over psychodynamic perspectives, trait perspectives, personological and life story perspectives, social cognitive perspectives, and biological perspectives.

when the girl came in to tell him how happy she was that he was leaving. “Then she

She gives up trying to communicate her feelings at this point, and asks him to stop talking about it. He responds to this nervously, repeating that he doesn 't want her to do it, it doesn 't matter to him. The girl then threatens to scream; one might think she is tired of his craven disassembling.

and she replied, "I was just trying to defend her and he started yelling at me.

Instantly Lisa began to state that George’s diagnosis of bipolar disorder was a huge and new challenge in their marriage that happen shortly after their son was born. George became defensive and stated that her nagging was a huge challenge. They began to yell over each other and George then stated he didn’t need this crap and he proceeded to leave the house. Lisa said don’t come back followed by the door slamming. Lisa then said see the bullshit I have to deal with. He then went on to express how his bipolar mood swings were too much and that if she knew he was going to be like this when they first met she would not have married him nor had a child with

He grunted, rocked backward, and brought the pump to his knees. He grunted again, lifted the pump onto the back of the truck, turned slowly and walked away.” ( Myers 27). Johnson keeps to himself and only speaks when spoken to. When they first head to Alpha Company Myers shows just how inexpressive Johnson is at the beginning of the book.

so she became furious and even said that she

The movie I chose was My Cousin Vinny. Vinny was a lawyer from New York, who had failed the bar six times, failed,

him he was tired. She then asked him if he wanted supper but he said

when she asks "what need one?". They knew this would cause him to leave either house as he had too much pride to agree.

2. BRIEF SUMMARY OF FILM (1 PARAGRAPH) Reign Over Me focuses on a character named Charlie Fineman, who was a former dental hygienist with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and was portrayed by actor Adam Sandler. Charlie lost his family during the September 11th attacks and held onto severe grief and blame. Fast forward a five years later, Charlie bumped into an old college roommate, Alan Johnson, and was trying to rekindle the friendship.

“Reign Over Me” by Mike Binder shows the life of a man who loses everything on the day of September 11, 2001. Charlie Fineman played by Adam Sandler suffers the loss of his wife and three daughters in the tragic plane accident. Despite five years passing Charlie has not yet been able to deal with his loss and as a result creates his own world of vinyl records and video games. By doing so he isolates himself from anything and everything that reminds him of what he once had; leaving his once blissful apartment full of bare walls.

that the she should have slept in a Motel and he asks her why she