Shutter Island Mental Illness

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a very serious mental health condition that is brought upon by either experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. This event could be the murder of a loved one, either being the murderer, witnessing the event or even being the one who picks up the pieces for example the emergency worker, detective, or police officer. Symptoms of PTSD can be nightmares, flashbacks, and severe anxiety. When you have experienced or witnessed such a traumatic event, it is normal to have bad dreams and trouble sleeping. In the film 'shutter island' directed by Martin Scorsese the main character Edward 'teddy' Daniels suffers from PTSD after murdering his wife not long after she murdered there 3 kids. We see through the film that he also suffers from delusion disorder, which is also a mental illness that a

He is a Marshall on the hunt for the missing patient; little does he know that he is just part of the biggest role-play known to psychology to get him back into the institution for he is the 67th patient and the most dangerous patient as he murdered his wife. Teddy witnessed the death of his children that he felt responsible for because he did not get his wife help sooner and he killed his wife. Due to this, he suffered from PTSD, delusions and paranoia. The films psychological aspects are relatively accurate to the time as the movies based in the 1950's. Symptoms of PTSD and Delusion disorder are nightmares, flashbacks, severe anxiety, hallucination, and paranoia. We see Edward Daniels suffering from all of these throughout the movie. Most of his nightmares and flashbacks are of his wife and one of his daughters, usually she is all wet, and we never know why until the end of the film. Whenever we see her in his flashbacks, she is usually telling him not to go to the lighthouse or to not do bad things because she does not want him to remember that he was the one that killed