The Little Mermaid Hoarding Disorder

OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is the unwanted recurrent thoughts, actions, or impulses and repetitive behaviors and actions that a person feels driven to perform (Obsessive Compulsive Anonymous World Services, 1999). People suffering from OCD perform a variation of strange rituals everyday uncontrollably. There are different types of compulsive behavior people with OCD display. For example, hoarders fear that something bad will happen if they throw anything away or give anything away. They compulsively hoard things that they don not need or use. These victims of OCD can become obsessed with not only performing actions, but with keeping objects and possessions.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder/hoarding has always interested me. These people take collecting to an unhealthy level. Ariel is the perfect example of a Hoarder.

The secondary tritagonist and Ariel’s best friend in the animated film, “The Little Mermaid”, is a high-strung and timid 18-year old tropical fish named Flounder. Flounder has made numerous visits to his family doctor concerning excessive worrying about his best friend Ariel. Flounder describes himself as someone who has been easily stressed for most of his life. Flounder’s mother previously suffered from chronic anxiety, however, his mother and father died when he was very young. He is a single parent to 5 children (guppies) and his only living relative is his sister Sandy. In high school, his academic skills were normal but he suffered from behavioral, physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms of anxiety. He reported previously seeing a

I believe Isabel has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) because of her uncontrollable obsessions with certain thoughts that results in compulsions which is an impulsive behavior that are performed repeatedly. As stated “she packs and repacks her books.”

The following is an overview about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), one of the most difficult psychiatric illness to be understood. The way of doing certain behaviors, thoughts or routines repeatedly is the essential condition of a person with OCD. In general, it is known and described by someone who is extremely perfectionist and meticulous. Unfortunately, they do realize those habits and be able to stop doing it. Common behaviors are such as checking locks, doors, stove bottoms, and lights, hand washing, counting things, or having recurrent intrusive thoughts of hurting oneself or somebody else.

Catherine discussed again Lily Cate’s “hoarding” behavior. We discussed changing the word from hoarding to collecting. Mother still concerned. Lily Cate has a lot of anxiety about giving up collections. Mother concerned about Lily Cate getting food and other items out of trash. For example, Lily Cate put in a basket a banana peel and a half-eaten orange out of the trash and a lemon from the tree. She had items hidden and when Mom wanted to take it away, Lily Cate became anxious and upset.

Up to 5% of the world’s population displays some sign of clinic hoarding. Hoarding involves the compulsive acquisition and accumulation of objects, animals, and trash and other debris. The hoarder, who often has another mental illness such as depression, is unable or unwilling to discard items, frequently resulting in health and safety hazards to those who reside in or visit the dwelling (Hurd, 2015). Hoarding can affect many aspects of one’s life causing severe problems and can begin as early as adolescent years continuing through elderly life.

Increasingly more girls recently have begun to take up eating disorders at younger and younger ages in attempt to keep up with present day trends. Girls as young as five years old have been found to possess these eating disorders. As Dr. Ira Sacker has explained to ABC News, his patient, Justine Gallagher, began at the age of five when she started to eat paper and avoid meals in an attempt to lose weight. As Justine stated, “I thought if I ate my regular meals that I would get heavy and people would make fun of me.”

B. Compulsive hoarding could be a subtype of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which is defined as an anxiety disorder characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead to repetitive behaviors (compulsions).

In the movie The Little Mermaid, Ariel represents the id. She had no rational decision-making process. She was driven by her desire to satisfy her wish of living in the human world. Therefore, she acted on impulses, such as how after King Triton destroyed her cave of human artifacts, she impulsively went to Ursula for help to become human. Ariel’s super ego is subdued throughout most

I went to watch The Little Mermaid with my parents. The playwright of this story was Doug Wright. We saw the play at Fossil Ridge High School on Saturday November 18th at 2 o’clock. It was an amazing play that gave a fun twist on the movie you know and love. Act 1 was almost completely under water. It introduced you to the setting, which is King Triton’s palace. You see curiosity and wonder in this part. In Act 2, Ariel spends most of her time in Prince Eric’s palace to win over his heart. You get to feel the love between these two at this point. There are also many characters that I fell in love with on the way. Some mains ones are Ariel, Prince Eric, Ursula, Flounder, Sebastian, and Scuttle. There were also some minor characters like King Triton, Ariel’s sisters, the maids, Chief Louis, and so many more. Each one adds something small, but together they create a great play.

Many believe that Ariel is a bad role model for children, especially young girls who look up to Disney Princesses. Many of these people believe that she changed her body for a man, and that no young girl should be taught to do the same. Many people think that the little mermaid is one of the least feminist princesses created by the Disney company, but unfortunately, these views are incorrect, and have weak supporting evidence. Ariel was anything but an anti-feminist, and actually was an advocate for women’s and mer-people’s rights. The little mermaid is the youngest (only sixteen at the time) in her family. While she may be little, but she made a big impact in her world, and is still making an impact on the world around us today.

They diagnose the compulsive hoarding syndrome according to three criterions. First, the accumulation of useless possessions and failure to discard them can be a sign of the disorder. Compulsive hoarders have an obsessive need to accumulate and save many objects, and also have a tremendous anxiety about throwing them away. This is because of a supposed need for the objects and their value or an unnecessary emotional attachment to them. If they have any doubt at all about the value of an object, compulsive hoarders will keep it, “just in case” (www.rd.com).

Our cultural and societal norms highlight the significance of effectively performing everyday activities. Obsessions such as those exhibited by Joanna aren’t an ordinary component of and individual’s behavior. Joanna’s habits will probably be perceived as unwelcome and atypical. Her activities may be considered abnormal as they are consistent with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) symptoms, which involve repeated compulsions and obsessions capable of greatly interfering with a person’s everyday activities. OCD symptoms generally have 4 key facets: obsessions linked to checking compulsions, obsessions with cleanliness linked to a compulsion to wash and clean constantly, hoarding-related habits, and a need for order and symmetry. Two of the above

In a general view, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is associated with obsessions and compulsions. The obsessions are recurrent thoughts, fears, images, ideas, urges, and doubts. Patients suffering from this disorder often go through fluctuating episodes of compulsion which are in response to an obsessive thought, such as arranging, touching, repeatedly checking on something, and recurrent hand-washing. The patient experiences repeated rise in anxiety from the obsessions, that compels them to indulge in their compulsions as a form of relief (Brown University, 2013). Most of the patients suffering