Girl Interrupted Essay

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Girl, Interrupted, was an extremely interesting movie about a young woman named Susanna who was admitted to McLean Hospital for approximately a year after she tried to commit suicide. Susana is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). She becomes close friends with a young lady named Lisa, who is diagnosed as a sociopath. Throughout the movie, you see Susanna struggle with her battle of staying with the people who have been deemed unfit to be on the outside or to resume life living in the reality of things. It provides a look into the institutionalized lives of women who are suffering with severe mental illness and the treatment that is received. There are multiple mental disorders shown in the film. The disorders ranged from …show more content…

However, the visits with the doctors seemed to be short and did not provide us with much information. The doctors in the movie also seem to not care much about what was going on with the patients themselves. They would ask questions that seemed to irritate the patient more than help them. In the end, you can tell that the specialists were seeing if they should give the patient more medication and what kind of activities should this person should be able to do. Noting that the specialist seemed to not care at all about the clients is important because of a prime example in the movie. In the film, a character by the name of Daisy commits suicide after being released from the hospital. I do not believe that Daisy was ready to be released from the hospital nor should she have been able to live by herself. I think that this is a prime reason to believe that the doctors were not during their jobs properly. We also know that the hospital uses electroshock treatment, in which causes some of the patients to be confused on where or who they are speaking to. For example, Lisa received electroshock and did not recognize Susana for herself, but called her Jamie, Lisa’s dead best friend. Electroshock also can cause memory and speech impairments. In the end I do not believe that the treatments portrayed in the movie were effective at all. The specialists were not helpful and the drugs did nothing especially

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