The Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders says in order to be diagnosed the patient must exhibit five contexts of the disorder. The first one that she displayed was frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. In middle of the film, Lisa, her sociopath best-friend, was moved to a different ward after drugging a nurse in order to escape; Susanna threw a frantic fit demanding to know where she was and screaming that she was being abandoned. She was so worried that Lisa was all that she had left. Susanna’s whole relationship with Lisa fulfills the second criteria, a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating by extremes of idealization and devaluation. Susanna idealized how “free” Lisa was, how she did whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted, without feeling guilty, or caring what anyone thought of her. …show more content…
One could say that Susanna experienced large identity disturbance throughout this film. However if was extremely apparent when she was in the emergency room. After Susanna had swallowed the bottle of aspirins followed by a bottle of vodka, she kept telling the doctors that the bones in hands had disappeared. She later explained to her therapist that bodies did not have to be restricted to earthly psychics, that the bones in her hand had disappeared, but when she was at the emergency room they reappeared. Susanna skips the fourth and fifth criterion, because the suicide attempt was a single occurrence, rather than a recurrent series of episodes. However, Susanna experienced severe mood swings throughout the movie which falls under the sixth criteria, an affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood She would be happy with Lisa and the other patients one moment, than the next incredible anxious and depressed then next. Her mood pattern was unstable, and