Posted by Dr. Bob on January 23, 2000, at 11:23:45
In reply to McLean and THE MOVIE, posted by Abby on January 21, 2000, at 13:55:41
> Although Susanna has
> been diagnosed with what the doctors call "borderline
> personality disorder," she is like most of the middle-class
> girls who have come to this private asylum in 1968, more
> bored and neurotic than crazy. She has adopted her
> highly interesting mental state as her only hobby. It also
> allows her the freedom to misbehave and then to rail
> against her "fascist" keepers for punishing her> Unlike those who must now put up with
> her, she has been showered with all the good things life
> has to offer, "and you're just throwing it away."I haven't seen the movie (yet), but these are some of the standard misconceptions about mental illness: that it's something people are choosing, that they could "just say no" if they really wanted, etc.
Bob
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