In the movie “Lila and Eve,” there was one major traumatic event, the death of Lila’s oldest son, Stephan. This event is what initiated the main focus and plot sequences of the movie, and the events that followed prior to Stephen's death. Prior to the death of Lila’s son, she became extremely manic and dissociative, as any mother would prior to the death of their son. Her physical health, mental state, judgement, and rationality went in a downward spiral. We can make this assumption based on the scene when her younger son knocks on her bedroom door before leaving for school, and when she opens the door, she looks very drained, lethargic, and disoriented, as if she'd been crying for awhile and had not slept. Additionally, there are many pill bottles on her bed side table. As her younger son, Justin, leaves for school she goes to take one of the medications, however she drops the medications on the floor, and then she too then drops to the floor and begins to sob. …show more content…
We see in one part of the movie, Lila comes home and Justin had moved all of his brothers things out of the room that they had once shared together. Lilas reaction to this event was very brutal, she slapped her son Justin across the face after asking where he had put all of his brothers things. The death of Stephan had an effect on their relationship because I don't believe Lila really understood how hard it was Ion Justin and was only living in her own grief and mental
Throughout the film, we learn that each woman has setbacks within her household. One sister has a terrible drinking problem and ultimately loses her job due to excessive drinking and tardiness. The second sister has had several pregnancies that each result in miscarriages due to high stress. As a therapist, there are several different elements to review.
The downfall of Andrea was sudden, and started with the overdose of a drug that treats major depressive disorder, Trazodone on June 1. After this incident, she was put in the hospital and diagnosed with major depressive disorder by her doctors, but her husband was told that this was an isolated event and was put on a few antidepressants. Barely a month later, Andrea attempted suicide for the first time on June 20th, 1999 by putting a knife to her throat. This attempt frightened Russell Yates, and he started to notice the unusual actions and words his wife was doing and saying. He worried about Andrea’s visions and descriptions that she provided to the hospital staff when she described a knife that was “dull, thin, long like a slicer, and had a wood handle” (O’Malley 38-39). The hospital staff also reported an incident where Andrea may have spoken to Satan, or the dark idea possessing her mind, and she screamed, “What do you want?!!” (O’Malley 40). After 19 days of hospital stay in the psych ward, and an intense mixture of antidepressants called Haldol and Cogentin, Andrea was discharged to a Partial Hospitalization Program. By August 18th, 1999, Andrea’s doctor, Dr. Starbranch, wrote in her notes during a post hospital appointment that the couple wanted to have “as many babies as nature would allow” and designated the fact that this would “guarantee future psychotic depression”
living in such a manner. I did not know the exact cause of her anxiety
Dangerous love was an attraction for March in Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth. The story suggests that her love is pure from the beginning and that she could only love her counter part Hollis. The twist and turns that this novel brings shows the doom that falls upon March and Hollis's relationship. The affection grows to lust and then to a need for their bodies. March and Hollis's need for the love of each other lead to each of their destructions.
She was taken to the hospital after she tried to commit suicide, she took a bottle of aspirin. Her reason for taking the full bottle of aspirin was a major headache, which was also alarming to the psychiatrist. The psychiatrist recommended that she be admitted to a mental hospital for women, where she can rest and recover. Another sign of the Borderline Personality Disorder is casual sexuality.
After watching this movie, I believe I would have had the greatest empathic difficulty with the mother (Beth) if I were the counselor to this family. Beth presents as distant and withdrawn from her remaining family members as well as from her emotional self. Instead of acknowledging the death of her son, Beth appears to act as if the event never occurred. While I recognize and understand this is her way of coping, it is hard for me to connect empathically because of the emotional distance she has created. Additionally, Beth’s way of coping appears to be neglectful in that she seems to ignore the grieving needs of her living son and husband. To me, this action makes me believe Beth is selfish and does not care for the needs of others.
While many of Lanier’s work is known for its feminist attributes one of her most famous is “Eve’s Apology in Defense Of Women” a metaphysical, revolutionized version of “Adam and Eve”, the most popular biblical story of love and deceit in the book of Genesis. The title creates a sense of regret fullness also leaving a wondering impression needing to know what is Eve apologizing for? Furthermore the Defense Of Women sounds as if sort of an argumentative statement, to place an emphasis on her point of view. At first, the poem starts by discussing about Adam’s importance in line 792, Lanier says “ For he was Lord and King of all the earth, Before poore Eve had either life or breath.”(Eve’s Apology). To illustrate that Adam was the King of
The path from trauma to recovery is an experience that many deal with in hopes of finding tranquility. We understand trauma through two lenses: catastrophic and wound. According to American Psychiatric Association, catastrophic trauma refers to the site of an event “outside the range of usual human experience,” while wound trauma, also known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), is “inflicted not upon the body but upon the mind” (Visvis 228). Fellow Cree men Xavier Bird and Elijah Whiskeyjack both experience distressing trauma through their role as snipers in the Great War. Xavier’s journey is hit with multiple obstacles that test his Native culture while trying to overcome the traumatic effects of the war as he tries to distance himself from the Eurocentric perspective. Joseph Boyden’s novel Three Day Road illustrates the importance of cultural beliefs in a world of ethnic differences as men face the hardship of war while surrounded by temptations and actions that cannot be undone which eventually leads some down a disoriented road of Native savagery.
In history, women have been at the mercy of corrupt and oppressive societal forces. In Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, this is truly evident. Both Hurston and Hawthorne focus of the oppression of women in society, also with the central theme of female repression presented in both plots. As works of literature, the two novels convey these concepts in symbolism. Throughout Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, both authors engage the use of symbols to represent oppression that the female characters faced.
Having to experience the endeavors of Vietnam War is more trauma than man can handle. In the book The things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien that narrator is a scared man who has to go against his beliefs and experience unspeakable events. Events so unspeakable that he indeed makes up parts of the story to help himself mend the past and present. The men carried more than physical weight they carried emotional, and psychological weight. The past and the present is a very long time, but when the past continues to linger in the present it makes the present unbearable to face. In the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien , O’Brien explores the importance of storytelling as a means to preserve the individual to cope with a traumatic
The Golden Girls was an eighties sitcom about four women that shared a home in Miami. The sitcom presented a myriad of topics from homelessness to age discrimination. One of its more poignant episodes was about the diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This two part episode showed how Dorothy (portrayed by Bea Arthur), struggled to find the cause of an ongoing illness that mimicked flu like symptoms. After visiting a multitude of physicians, she was finally diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Her symptoms were all explained by this unknown disease that wreaked havoc on her life. By dissecting the episode, you see that the diseased prevented her from effectively working daily, performing
In our present era, there is no doubt that the evolution of women's rights has come a long way. It is in the Western Culture that these values for which women have fought for generations, are in conflict with Genesis 1-3. The events that occur in this "creation story" are crucial in that it begins when God creates man in his own likeness and man is given domination over all living things. The significance is the prominence given to men; God is male and his most important creation is male. The biblical account underlines the supremacy of man while making it clear that women play an inferior role. Furthermore, the biblical account also describes how woman are disobedient and yield to temptation, the result of which is the expulsion of both Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. In the poem "How Cruel is the Story of Eve", Stevie Smith's castigation towards the biblical story of Eve demonstrates how women have been victims of despair and suffering since the beginning of time. She holds it responsible for cruelty towards women in history, she implies that the values derived from the story of Eve were forced upon women without choice, and finally, she challenges the authenticity of the religious tale on a whole. Without a doubt, women have fallen victim to an untrue, religious tale from the beginning of time, and the poem is an outcry representing the suffering of women throughout history.
October 24th 1995, It was a brisk autumn day; the trees had just began changing colors, the once crisp navy green leaves had turned into burnt orange, candy apple red leaves that were fluttering from the trees. The neighbor’s yards were decorated with shinny plastic skeletons and fearsome ghosts made out of sheets ready to startle the trick or treaters that would be wandering the streets for Halloween. For everyone around the neighborhood it was a normal autumn day, however for my mother and I it was not. This was not only the day that the day that I was born but they day that I began to find out who I really was.
One of the main causes for her insanity is the treatment she is receiving by her husband. Right when the story begins the narrator moves into a home with her husband and new born child to stay for a few
I have had many ups and downs in my life bringing me right here; to this point in time; right this very moment… I have come to the point in my life where self reflection is my way of life. This right now is who I am; I experienced a troubled childhood with physical and mental abuse from my mentally ill mother. I was molested at age 9 and then experienced the nightmares from it years later. I was challenged with making hard decisions about religion in a very religious family. I was a teenage pregnancy statistic at 17 years old, but with a twist because I also became grieving mother. I had father who was a good man I just did not know him during my childhood. I have a younger brother that I am close to that breaks my heart every day due to his mental demons. I had the talk about homosexuality with my parents at age 20, after the long journey of trying to understand myself. I have lifelong issues with digestive & neurological problems that caused me to visit the emergency room often as a child and still I work on finding answers. I have dyslexia that was not caught right away and caused problems as a child and adult. I had further health issues causing me to have a hysterectomy at a fairly early age, rendering me unable to have a child. I have experienced great loss when my whole world passed away, my whole world was my Nana. My Nana is actually who I give full credit to keeping me on track with being a great person as appose to allowing it all take me down. Although she passed many years ago she shapes my views and values every day. I feel these values again; have led me back to right here and right now, making a reflection paper about myself and my wellness. I have gone down a few unfit paths and had some awful jobs but the experi...