Reign over Me: an Analysis

There were many psychosocial and environmental factors that Charlie faced for axis 4. One of these environmental factors would be that he still lives in the house that he lived in with his family. This is what caused the flashback of his family. Another factor is the loss of his career. He used to be a successful practicing dentist. He now has no career and lives off of settlement money and money from the government. He has very little social interaction. He doesn’t confide any of his feelings in friends. All of these things cause distress and impairment in Charlie’s life.

First of all, why Charlie shouldn’t have gotten the surgery is because he started understanding everyone and how they felt. This stressed him out a lot. He felt like he didn't belong with others. “Now I know what it means when they say “to pull a Charlie Gordon.” I'm ashamed.” (209). In this sentence, Charlie recognizes why his friends liked having him around so much. It was so that they could make fun of him and play tricks on him for their own fun. Also Charlie had felt bad about a kid at a restaurant. “I jumped up and shouted, “Shut up! Leave him alone! It's not his fault he can't understand! He can't help what he is! But for

Charlie shows symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder and anxiety. He seems to also suffer from depression, which can root from PTSD. The symptoms that were correct of PTSD were having flashbacks of traumatic events. The symptoms of anxiety that were correct were worrying about feeling guilty, and not becoming happy. The symptoms of depression that were correct were blaming yourself for everything, and always putting yourself down. The things that were realistic about PTSD were having flashbacks, feeling guilty, not wanting to become happy, blaming yourself, putting yourself down, and worrying; for example, Charlie became mentally unstable as a result of being sexually abused as a child. He blocked (repressed) thoughts like that out, and they never come

Charlie wanted to be left alone because he is not a “guinea pig any more. I 've done enough. I want to be left alone now.” (Keyes 288). Charlie is fed up with how he has been treated by the doctors. He wants to be left alone, so he can do whatever he pleases. He “can’t afford to spend my time with anyone-there’s only enough left for myself” (Keyes 292). Charlie is beginning to shun his peers, and the people that love him. He has become devoured by his work, and is not able to give up any of his time to spend with loved ones. Charlie does not value the importance of having his loved ones around him, but prior to the operation, he had a strong motivation to have friends, and to be loved by his peers.

After the operation, in only a couple of months, Charlie starts showing signs of new intelligence. His grammar, improved, and he is able to reflect on what his does in the past something he wasn’t able to do before. He had finally gotten something use had always desired. Then, everything and everyone turned on him. In “PROGRESS REPORT 12” April 30th (pg. 60) Charlie writes: “now, they hate me for my knowledge and understanding. What in the name of god do they want of me? They’ve driven me out of the factory. Now I more alone than ever before…” Charlie got what he always wanted, and now he lost everything he had. It was a sacrifice it sounded like he didn’t want to make. I can tell just be the tone of his writing. This shows that we should embrace everything that we have. Charlie didn’t embrace everything, although he appreciated most of the thing he never became happy not being able to just enjoy life as it is.

Over sixty people were killed that night and thirty more injured before Charlie took his own life. In his wake he left nothing. No suicide note. No motive. For years people were completely clueless about why the young boy snapped, and the police weren’t much help either. Whatever had been

The story's protagonist, Charlie Wales, is less a victim of bad luck than of circumstance, both socio-economic and personal. Charlie does not deserve Marion's continued denial of custody of his daughter, but the story is less about what Charlie does or does not deserve than how easily one's life can spin out of control due to unforeseen circumstance.

Some people argue that the doctors were selfish in their actions and took advantage of Charlie's innocence or that they were completely heartless after Charlie relapsed and started to become mentally handicapped once again. When Charlie began to relapse back to his mentally handicapped state of mind, he didn't blame the doctors; he understood all of the risks of the operation and faced them head on. He used what time he had left to expand the research that the doctors had done. His research would help the doctors to further expand their work and help other

He had the operation and it would not be permanent, it will make people not expect him to be the Charlie he was, and he then had no friends, or jobs, and he put his life in danger. Will Charlie ever change his mine? . I think that it's hard to do things, or pick something that may be a dream at first, and then have it become something that wasnt expecting. When Charlie thought that the operation was going to make him smarter, it turned out that everything he cared about, or was close to him,all slipped through his

In the movie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the main character Charlie is on a journey with his mental health. There are many high and low points, but it is obvious that he has a serious mental illness. Throughout the movie, Charlie shows many symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is defined as “A disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.” by the National Institute of Mental Health, and can be diagnosed through the DSM-IV method. Firstly, there needs to be signs of deviant behaviour. During the movie there are multiple occasions where Charlie blacks out and loses his memory. Whether it was drug, rage or anxiety included, this is still considered both deviant behaviour and a symptom of PTSD. Secondly, there needs to be signs of maladaptive behaviour. At the beginning of the movie, we see Charlie writing letters to his deceased best friend about his negative thoughts and feelings. While it is good to express these thoughts and feelings, it is not normal to articulate them to a dead person. He also experiences multiple flashbacks to the trauma he experienced from his Aunt Helen. Flashbacks are one the most common symptoms of PTSD, and can also develop other mental illnesses such as depression if not correctly treated. Lastly, there needs to be signs of personal distress, which can be seen when charlie expresses quilt about his Aunt Helen’s death before he has a blackout in the snow. When his feelings

Flashbacks are a key characteristic of a person who suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder. However, in the movie the audience does not witness Charlie having any flashbacks, although he does

Throughout the whole novel, Charlie battle his internal thoughts, a result of the tragic accident of his Aunt Helen and the suicide of his best friend Michael. Whenever Charlie feels like he is accepted he then loses it all at once and throughout the novel he fears showing his true identity because he doesn’t to feel lonely as he had before. He constantly alters himself to be accepted by a group, but this is the first time in his life where his friends accept him for what he truly is. For instance, after he gets into an argument with his girlfriend and he has to leave his group of friends for some time he then claims, “I don’t know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before

When someone knocked on her door later that week, Charlie was wondering just what the hell she had gotten herself into. Hannah was teething, or at least that was what the older woman who had stopped by yesterday on Franks behalf had said. All Charlie knew was that it had turned the little girl into a non stop whining machine. Throw a sick, clingy Brody into the mix and Charlie was about to lose her mind.

Charlie seems to have a liking on Alan because he did not know about his family hence did not ask him questions that reminded him of the pain he was suffering. On one night while drinking at a bar, Alan asks Charlie about his family, and suddenly Charlie’s moods are changed, he becomes hostile and infuriated and even throws a bottle

He happens to have some crises frequently, and as it was mentioned before he tends to become hysterical frequently. It was explained how he doesn’t try to distinct himself from others, and normally this is real danger for someone. Because with no meaning, one would slowly, or rapidly wipe out itself. It could be much worse than the kind of despair Holden had. But the situation with Charlie is more like he is faking the life at some point, that he is trying to participate without a reason/explanation. His ability to live that way could be interpreted as some form of nihilism, but also it could be said that he manages to live that way because he is aware of his mental disabilities. But Then maybe he reduced the world only to getting good grades and participating and not questioning. As the Bill told him, Charlie probably didn’t know he was a genius.