The Abuse Of Suicide In The Film Cake

She was also prescribed antidepressants, a tranquilizer, and an opioid to take daily for several years. Geerts was so desperate after struggling with her illness that she asked her psychiatrist to take her life. In 2014, her doctor prescribed her a lethal dose of drugs to take. Geert’s sister, Adriana, expressed that she thinks society should try harder to help people who suffer with mental illness. Cheng exhibits this euthanasia case to demonstrate how difficult it can be to balance between individual freedom and protecting patients that are vulnerable. I will use this text and include Geert’s case to show that there should be a more efficient way to deal with patients that suffer with depression other than

For the purpose of the current essay, suicide will be defined, as an act or instance of taking ones own life through direct, deliberate and immediate acts that lead to death life through direct, deliberate and immediate acts that lead to death (XXXXX). Importantly, one should remember that there are different forms of suicide. For example, euthanasia to end suffering or physician assisted suicide as well as adolescent suicides for individuals that are prepubescent and honor suicides which are completed to escape the shame, placed on themselves or others, of an action they did. Additionally, there are two forms of attempted suicides that should be considered. First there is para suicide, or an attempted suicide using nonlethal means (Curra). Often, these are suicide attempts or gestures such as consuming a nonlethal amount of medication or cutting where the cut is not deep enough to cause significant blood less. Although there are numerous forms of suicide, the primary focus for the remainder of this essay will be on

“ The top mission for the counseling center on campus is keeping their students’ safety, so after a couple times I talk to my doctor about “suicide”, they told me if I keep the dangerous idea, they would contact hospitals,” said Danny, “I know their dilemma, but I just have much pressure when I knew I would be hospitalized. Then I tried to digest the bad feeling by myself.”

“Suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result” (Durkheim 34). Suicide is a phenomenon that has plagued our world since the beginning of time. It currently accounts for the second leading cause of death in people ages ten to twenty-four years old (Garni Powerpoint). This means of ending your own life is something we can prevent as a society. If we can eliminate societal pressures and stereotypes we can all be treated equally. All suicides during a certain time period are grouped together, when in all reality we should be treating each situation as it’s own. Durkheim states “...with it’s own unity, individuality, and consequently its own nature- a nature, furthermore, dominantly social”.

The diagnosis of Major depressive disorder and Borderline personality disorder (BPD) are entirely accurate, as Diana’s behaviour epitomizes the characteristics and diagnostic features of both disorders. As outlined in the DSM-5, Diana exemplifies symptoms warranting a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, as she displays the presence of five or more specified symptoms while having no prior history of mania. Diana exhibits the diagnostically required symptoms of frequent depressed mood, diminished interest in normal activities, and recurring suicidal thoughts/attempts, resulting in considerable distress and impairment. (APA, 2013, p. 160-161). In addition to fitting the diagnostic criteria, Diana demonstrates marked deficits in areas of functioning. Most strikingly Diana typifies emotional symptoms common in unipolar depression including prolonged and severe unhappiness, crying spells, and a general sense of hopelessness. Diana also displays

Suicide affects many all around the world and suicide rate keep increasing, making suicide a growing concern. In the film Cake, the main character Claire Bennett develops an odd fascination with the suicide of a woman from her support group. In this paper, I will focus on Claire.

Suicide is defined as the act of taking one’s own life voluntarily. Sometimes, talking about this situation makes people very uncomfortable because, according to today’s society, it’s a terrifying word. For this reason, most people try to avoid this subject they are unwilling to talk about it or deal with it. Suicide has become the third leading cause of death for teenagers; the rate of suicide has increased dramatically over the years. Teenagers who commit suicide suffer from a severe case of depression, leading them to think that the only solution to end their pain is by ending their own life. The difference in gender plays a role in how one may take their life. Males usually use guns or knives to hurt themselves while females usually use pills. It’s important to take this subject seriously and try to find different solutions for this social issue by applying a variety of sociological theories including the structural functionalism, the conflict theory and the symbolic interactionist.

2- She is diagnosed with the season affective disorder (SAD), she feels, lonely, isolated, and depression.

(Life Span pg. 38) Claire’s lack of control over her home life makes her want to be more rebellious. She is easily influenced and makes her care about what everyone thinks of her. Having so much pressure being put on her by her peers causes her to be very pristine and preppy. Claire is the girly girl of the Breakfast Club group and doesn’t like being pressured into discussing her private life with others. When she is made to feel like a prude she gets really upset. She is a good girl but doesn’t really want people to know it. Being called out makes her angry and she doesn’t like being opened with others because she is afraid they will judge her or make fun of her. As many teen girls do, she feels helpless to how things are and that she can never truly be herself if she wants to be accepted by her friends.

When she was having a sleepover with her friends, Alanna was talking about an email she got about moving up in dance level while Claire didn’t receive this email. Claire wants to move up the whole year, but her teachers say she isn’t ready. In school, many people aren’t nice to her. While all of this is happening, her dad randomly falls into an intense stroke. He has to immediately rush to the hospital while in a lot of danger. Claire has to deal with her dad who almost becomes a baby again and has to learn his life over again. He needs to learn how to speak, remember names, walk, and many more. She has to work through her hard life and not be embarrassed by her dad near others. While this is hard, she has a daddy daughter dance that she thinks her dad can’t go to. Claire has to learn how to cope with her life while her dad is learning how to be himself

The session was conducted in the office assigned to Ms.(MO) the social worker. Mr. (FT) accompanied and remained in attendance during the session with his wife Mrs. (DR).  Mrs.(DR), is a 35 - year old Hispanic woman with thoughts of suicide or wanting to hasten death. She has made one attempt to commit suicide by ingesting multiple pill at one time. Mrs. (DR) admits cutting herself  however; she says it's never deep and she does not do it on her children’s birthdays and holidays.

Claire Standish, the spoiled brat played by Molly Ringwald, reminds me of the girls that I couldn't stand in high school! She places herself above everyone else in the movie. Sure, she's got her problems, just like all teenagers. But somehow, to everyone else, her family's wealth and power and her alliance with the "in" crowd seems to diminish whatever problems she may have. To the other characters, she's just conceited Claire.

Throughout the world of suburbia, there seems to be a persistence of communities who attempt to create a perfect, enclosed world for the whole of the community to live in. By providing for everything that the inhabitants would ever want, suburbia is able to close itself off from those around it that it deems unworthy of belonging. While this exclusivity helps to foster the sense of community, it can also bring with it isolation from the outside, and also from within, and have disastrous results. Throughout the semester, there have been a number of works that have dealt the issue of isolation, but the greatest representation of a work whose physical qualities in its representation of suburbia help to

In “Wanting To Die”, Anne Sexton illustrates vividly an analogy that compares one’s desire to commit suicide and drug addiction. Though this poem may initially seem to revolve around the themes of death and suicide, there are several examples in the poem that can be referenced to drug addiction and the intentions of the drug user. In general, the tone of this poem is luridly depressing as it produces an imagery that is painstakingly dark and morbid. It encapsulates the reader within the mind of the suicidal thinker through specific personifications of suicide and death. Sexton also utilizes metaphors and similes in this poem to describe how suicide conducts a mind of its own which engages in

There are thousands of poems floating around written by bitter or depressed teenagers that are never recognised as works of art. Another form of escape for teenagers is, unfortunately, suicide. It is alarming how high the teen suicide rates have risen over the past decade. Yet, it is comforting that there are support groups and counsellors available now to aid teens through their troubles. Because no one wants to see a life full of promise and potential end abruptly because of a little sorrow in one kid's life. Another reason for teen suicide is their home life. The teenager gets caught in the middle of an argument between their parents, and they take the blame personally. This is not right. Sometimes the child is beaten or abused and is forced to run away into the streets, where they become homeless, and sometimes abducted. Sometimes they just die in a back alley during a cold winterOs night, and they are never missed. At sixteen, a teenager knows about suffering, because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.