Dissociative Disorders

1. A disorder where a person experiences changes in their memory, identity, or personality! Dissociative Disorders

2. Types ofDissociative Disorders • Dissociative Amnesia – The inability to recall important personal events or information.Unlike other forms of amnesia, this is not caused by a medical trauma but by stress. • Dissociative Identity Disorder - A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. • Dissociative Fugue – Individuals this disorder suddenly and unexpectedly take physical leave of his/her surroundings and set off on a journey of some kind.Individuals experiencing a dissociative fugue have traveled over thousands of miles.

3. Based on a true story of a woman with dissociative identity disorder Sybil Part I Sybil Part II

4. Personality Disorders • Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning. • People suffering from this disorder do not think they have a problem b/c their personality does not bother them!

5. Paranoid Personality A disorder in which the individual has an extreme distrust of others and is constantly suspicious that the people around them have sinister motives. . Antisocial Personality Characterized by a lack of conscience. People with this disorder are prone to criminal behavior, believing that their victims are weak and deserving of being taken advantage of. They tend to lie and steal Personality Disorders

6. Borderline Personality Characterized by mood swings and poor self-esteem. People with this disorder are prone to bouts of anger. Narcissistic Personality People with this disorder are extremely self-centered! They exaggerate their achievements, expecting others to recognize them as being superior Personality Disorders

7. Girl Interrupted • Winona Ryder(Susanna) Borderline Personality Disorder • Angelina Jolie (Lisa) psychotic, anti-social personality disorder, sociopath • Brittany Murphy (Daisy) obsessive compulsive disorder Murphy

8. Susanna Kaysen - The autobiographical main character, Susanna Kaysen is admitted to a psychiatric ward to be treated for borderline personality disorder  following a suicide attempt. She is admitted after a short consultation with a psychiatrist who is also an acquaintance of the family. She is told that she will only be staying there for a few weeks, but it turns out to be close to two years instead. Throughout the book, she frequently contrasts the time of the consultation, twenty minutes, to the time she ended up spending there (Borderline personality disorder - a psychiatric diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders that describes a prolonged disturbance of personality function characterized by depth and variability of moods...) Lisa - She is diagnosed as a sociopath, but whether she actually is one is left open to interpretation. Lisa periodically escapes from the hospital, only to be found a day or two later and re-admitted. She is usually happy enough to be back though she does put up a fight when restrained. She is an ex-junkie who never sleeps and barely eats, and enjoys making trouble for the staff. She apparently takes some pride in her diagnosis. Although she has a therapist assigned to her, she never actually sees him. Lisa is not in contact with her family except her brother, but the extent of their contact is not described. She also has a lawyer, though it appears he is mostly used to threaten the staff if she doesn't get what she wants. (Antisocial personality disorder - defined by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as "...a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood." The individual...) Daisy - A thin girl who is admitted to the hospital seasonally, according to Susanna, coming before Thanksgiving and staying through Christmas every year. She has a single room, where she spends most of her time. She is addicted to laxatives and will only eat chicken, and only in her room. She peels off the meat and keeps the carcasses, saying that when she has 14 carcasses, it's time to leave the hospital, possibly due to obsessive compulsive disorder. Daisy's father visits her quite often, and it is implied he has incestuous feelings for her. Daisy eventually commits suicide on her birthday. Susanna describes her as "sexy" and says Daisy had a spark that the rest of the girls lack. Daisy is reclusive and often refuses to be social. She hates when anyone goes near her and is hostile when people approach her. However, she does allow Lisa to enter her room. Sometimes they even share cigarettes, indicating that Daisy does respect Lisa out of all the other patients on the ward. (Self-harm is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) as a symptom of borderline personality disorder. However patients with other diagnoses may also self-harm, including those with depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and several personality disorders.[2] Self-harm is also apparent in high-functioning individuals who have no underlying clinical diagnosis.[6]

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