Blog #8

In our film, the main character, Caroline, and her dad, Ben, both have personality disorders. Caroline is psychotic and her dad is bipolar.

Caroline’s psychotic disorder is caused by her recent passing of her mother. Her disorder makes it hard for her to make good judgements and behave appropriately. As a result, Caroline acts brashly and kills her father in return of him killing her mother. There are different categories of psychotic disorders, yet she has a “brief psychotic disorder,” which is typically caused by a very stressful event such as a death in the family (in her case: her mother).

Ben (Caroline’s dad), has a bipolar disorder, which causes people to have serious shifts in mood and act very impulsively without thoughts of repercussions. This is just the case in Ben, as he acts on his thoughts to kill his wife with no second guessing. He didn’t wish to argue with his wife anymore, yet instead of acting rationally and getting a divorce, he abruptly killed her. He didn’t take his daughter into consideration when he committed this horrible act, completely ruining their relationship.

The mixture of the two’s personality disorders resulted in a lot of pain and death. Help wasn’t sought, and it caused a domino effect of tragedy. https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/mental-health-psychotic-disorders#1 https://www.helpguide.org/articles/bipolar-disorder/bipolar-disorder-signs-and-symptoms.htm