What is Susana diagnosed with in Girl, Interrupted?

In the memoir, she relates her twenty-month experience as a patient in McLean psychiatric hospital near Boston, MA, between April 1967 and January 1969—twenty-four years or so after her institutionalization—when she was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (or BPD).

What is Daisy’s diagnosis in Girl, Interrupted?

In the memoir, Girl Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen ,recalls her experience at McLean hospital where she was put with borderline personality disorder after she attempted suicide.

What was Angelina Jolie’s diagnosis in Girl, Interrupted?

sociopath
Angelina Jolie as Lisa Rowe, diagnosed as a sociopath. Charismatic, manipulative, rebellious and abusive, she has been in the institution since she was twelve, and has escaped several times over her eight years there, but is always caught and brought back eventually.

Does Susanna have BPD?

Depression often does not work alone. In Susanna’s case, she also suffered from borderline personality disorder. Compounding the effects of intense sadness, borderline personality disorder attacks a person’s self-image.

What is everyone’s diagnosis in Girl, Interrupted?

In the psychiatric ward, Susanna befriends Polly Clark, a childlike schizophrenic; Georgina Tuskin, a pathological liar; Daisy Randone, who self-harms and has obsessive–compulsive disorder, as well as being implied to be bulimic; and Janet, a sardonic woman with anorexia.

What is wrong with Polly in Girl, Interrupted?

Polly is a disfigured patient who was hospitalized for schizophrenia and depression. Polly has severe scarring on her body, the result of setting herself on fire.

What disorders does Daisy Randone have?

Daisy Randone is an 18-year-old who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), has been sexually abused by a trusted adult, and has learned to rely on maladaptive coping strategies, such as bulimia and self-harm. She is introduced early in the film as a pretentious, but kind patient on the ward.

What’s wrong with Daisy Randone?

Murphy plays utterly chic Daisy Randone, a girl with a history of sexual abuse who is now bulimic with OCD and a self-harming problem. Another of her traits? Keeping carcasses of the cooked chickens that her father brings her hidden under her bed. The other girls also think she has an addiction to laxatives.