![]() After she attempted suicide, she was rushed to the emergency room the camera angle switched from everybody frantically moving around to help to her wrists. The second criteria was inflicting harm on the body by cutting or bruising. In the movie, she stated that she has a headache, which I believe could have been true to a point, but she also was feeling more and more pressure from her family and friends to be more “normal” and at the same time there was a fallout with the teacher she had been having an affair with. The first of the criteria for BPD in Girl, Interrupted, was having suicidal thoughts and doing things to contribute to a possible suicide by attempting what Susanna called a “half-hearted attempt” to kill herself by taking a bottle of aspirin with vodka. Other situations that can occur in a person diagnosed with BPD are shifts in their moods, having an unstable self-image, impulsivity, unstable relationships, anger, and physical aggression and/or violence. In many cases, a person that has been diagnosed with BPD and has arrived in a mental health emergency room have intentionally hurt themselves in one way or another, ranging from alcohol and substance abuse, delinquency, unsafe sex, and reckless driving (Coffey et. The 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual lists several symptoms of borderline personality disorder, and to be diagnosed she had to meet at least 5 of them (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). I believe that Susanna Kaysen met the criteria for a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. All I can tell them is, it’s easy.” Kaysen continued on by explaining how it is very simple to slip into a similar universe, one that is invisible from this side, but once you are in that universe you can easily see the world that you came from. In the beginning of the movie she started off by saying, “People ask, how did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up there as well. Susanna Kaysen was admitted into Claymoore Hospital and was diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder. Throughout the movie, she further describes what made her decide to check herself into the institution, what it was like there, and other thoughts she had toward the world. The story is based around Susanna’s personal struggles and when she was admitted into a mental hospital for what she called a “half-hearted attempt” to kill herself. Susanna Kaysen, is the daughter of a prominent well-known economist. The movie takes place in the Boston area in the late 1960’s. In addition to buying out residents, the company also paid to have 78 graves relocated from four cemeteries that were in the dam's flood zone." See a YouTube video of Clear Creek Falls below.The movie Girl, Interrupted was released in 1999 and centered on the story of an eighteen year old girl, Susanna Kaysen, who has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. It is unclear from historical records just how many families were displaced by the dam project. Postal Service abolished the Falls City post office altogether. ![]() But well before the dam's construction the town dwindled, a victim mainly of its remote location. "In 1853, a post office was established near the falls and a small village, later known as Falls City, developed. "The projected flood zone was sparsely populated, although Clear Creek Falls-actually a pair of falls about a quarter mile apart in southeast Winston County-was a popular recreation spot for generations," Alabama Power historian Michael Sznajderman wrote in the encyclopedia article. Falls City was already a ghost town by the time it was flooded in 1961 after Alabama Power built a dam at the Sipsey Fork tributary on the Warrior River to create Lewis Smith Lake, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama. ![]()
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