Homework#3 In My Girl, Vada, the main character, lives with her father in a funeral parlor that he owns. Overtime, living in the funeral parlor, along with other factors, has caused Vada to begin to worry with the idea that she is dying. She comes up with several illness in which she believes she has. As a result, Vada makes several trips to see her doctor claiming to have symptoms of these many illnesses when in fact she might be suffering from illness anxiety disorder. Based on the observations of Vada’s behavior throughout the movie, one can conclude that she shows symptoms of illness anxiety disorder. Vada occupies her time with thoughts that she is contracting illnesses which she thinks she is dying of. She only seems to engage in this behavior when her father begins to work on another corpse. At this time, Vada will go see her doctor complaining that she shows symptoms similar to the symptoms that the person her father is preparing would have displayed. For example, when her father was working on his old high school teacher, Vada complained that she thought she had prostate cancer. She also went to her doctor after her friend Thomas J passed complaining that she could not breath and she was suffocating, a situation similar to …show more content…
what Thomas J might have been experiencing when he died. Because her father is always working on corpses, Vada continues to show symptoms for many different illnesses. Vada’s symptoms do not stay the same, they change with each illness that she claims she has. There are several factors in Vada's life that might be causing her to develop this disorder.
One predominant factor is her living conditions. Vada lives with her father and grandmother in a funeral parlor where her dad works. At her age, Vada has yet to fully understand what death is and living in a funeral parlor might have added to her curiosity of it. Her lack of understanding death is shown when she storms into Thomas J's funeral complaining that they prepared his body incorrectly and that he did not look as he did when he was living. Also, early in the movie, she gets kids to pay her money to show them a corpse in its coffin. Instead, she pretends that the corpse moved itself and shows them her living
grandmother. Another contributing factor could be her relationship with her father, Harry. In the movie, her father never really spends time with her and he doesn't appear to pay her any attention as he is constantly working. He is aware of Vada's pretending to be sick and believes it to be a phase that she will grow out of eventually. In the scene where Shelly reacts to Vada laying on the floor at dinner, he even tells Shelly to not pay her any attention and that she will stop. When Vada does get attention from Shelly, her teacher, and others, she still pretends to be ill. Later in the movie, Shelly develops a relationship with Vada's father. This leads Vada to act out in hopes of getting them to break up their engagement. Vada’s behavior towards her father’s engagement combined with her behavior after her begins to spend time with her confirms how she longed for his attention. The death of her mother could have also been a factor due to her lack of knowledge on how her mother actually died which her father tries to help her understand. Vada's lack of knowledge on death, along with other factors, caused her to be worried with the idea that she is dying. This constant concern caused Vada to think that she had symptoms of several illnesses, when in fact she was pretending to have similar illnesses to the corpses in her father's funeral parlor. In conclusion, Vada’s obsession of the thought of her dying caused her to exhibit symptoms of illness anxiety disorder.
In “Girl Interrupted” Susanna Kaysen, the main character, goes through many episodes that give a picture of the disorder she’s suffering from. The first such incident occurs when the psychiatrist talks to Susanna about her failed suicide attempt. During the conversation, she is seen as confused and irritated by his presence. While the psychiatrist questions her, her mind seems to be somewhere else because she is having flashbacks of her past, maybe a sign of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). Susanna seems uncertain about things, she claims that she does not know what she feels.
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