In evaluating different psychological personality disorders, such as obsessive compulsive, paranoid, and histrionic. The characteristics of someone being obsessive compulsive are everything having to be overly perfect. They are a perfectionist. Someone who is paranoid has hyper negative feelings, suspicious. Histrionic is a disorder where someone needs to have excessive attention, extra publicity. I could pick up on plenty of these personality disorders in the movie, Mommie Dearest. Imagine having a mother who is an obsessive compulsive child abuser. That is the kind of mother Joan Crawford was. She is completely obsessive compulsive, paranoid, and a histrionic lady. Joan is a mother of two, Christina and Christopher. In the movie, Mommie…show more content… I saw this disorder more towards the end of the movie when everyone was getting older. According to Bressert (1995), “People with paranoid personality disorder are predominantly characterized by having a long-standing pattern of pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others.” (para. 1) In my words, paranoid is the false feeling that people are out to acquire you. Joan was paranoid that her daughter’s behavior was so poor that she pulled her from school. Christina was kissing on a boy and was caught, a typical teenager trying to experience love. Joan then puts her daughter in a nun house. This shows paranoia because the kids were only kissing, but Joan was so paranoid that she couldn’t give her daughter a normal punishment of getting privileges suspended for a certain amount of time. As talked about in the previous disorder, Joan was paranoid that she was getting washed out, that she requested to take her daughter’s role on her television show. Joan was paranoid that people weren’t as impressed with her anymore, so she played Christina’s role to obtain some more fame. At the end of the movie, Joan died and cut her kids from her will. I believe that Joan was paranoid that her kids would be too spoiled, so she left them out of her will. I have an example of paranoia that is not in the movie. According to Day (2008), “Christina says now, 55 years later. 'It was up close and personal. She came this far from my face, and you could see it in her eyes, you can see if someone is trying to kill you.'” (para. 2) This must have brought paranoia into Christina’s life at many
