1. Lady Macbeth would be diagnosed with OCD. OCD is a disorder that is defined by obsessions and compulsions that consume more than 1 hour per day or cause clinically significant distress or impairment. Obsessions include recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images. In this case, Lady Macbeth worries that something really bad is going to happen to her or her family, and these thoughts overwhelm her mind throughout the day. She believes if she does not perform her compulsions these bad things will occur. Compulsions are repetitive behaviors or mental acts individuals engage in to prevent or reduce anxiety and distress. Compulsions are also attempts to suppress, ignore, or neutralize the persistent unwanted thoughts. Lady Macbeth’s compulsions are to spend an excessive amount of time cleaning herself and her things to relieve her contamination obsession. She also engages in a counting obsession that she uses when she hears words that would trigger her to think something bad was going to happen. These would be words that had to do with germs and …show more content…
There are various clinician-administered measures for the assessment of OCD. Clinical interviews and various self-report measures are typically used as well as behavioral avoidance tests or observational tasks in which individuals are exposed to feared stimuli while rating their distress level. It is also important to review the etiological considerations when assessing and diagnosing OCD. Being that OCD involves both genetic and environmental factors. Heredity plays a major role in the etiology of OCD, therefore it would be beneficial to examine if any of Lady Macbeth’s family members have OCD or related disorders. As her therapist, it would be conducive, while working with her to explore if there was or is any trauma in her past or present. Trauma may be associated with increased symptom severity in OCD. Other life events are associated with OCD onset, which include accidents and serious
This story by Lauran Slater explains the life of a man called Mario Della Grotta who has OCD what the French would name it as obsessive compulsive disorder. In the essay Who Holds the Clicker by Lauren Slater explains the different types of procedures that were used to treat Mario's OCD such as psychosurgery, implantations, and prescription drugs. Despite the fact that Mario knew the side effects of these procedures, he still insisted in having these treatments to cure his illness. Mario was said to be the first American psychiatric patients to undergo this highly experimental procedure as there have only been 50 implantations for OCD thus far. Unfortunately, the surgery that he went through had an after effect.
The people with OCD have either the obsessions part or the compulsive part, and if it’s really major, they have both. These thoughts and behaviors cause major distress, take up a lot of ones
Lady Macbeth was a fictional character in the play Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, a tragedy set in the 12 century. She was the wife of a man named Macbeth who became very murderous and blood thirsty while trying to become King of Scotland. In this tragedy, three witches tell Macbeth that he will become king and so he shares this news with Lady Macbeth. At the beginning of this story Lady Macbeth is the more dominant and strong willed person in the relationship, while Macbeth is the coward and fragile one.
It is noted in the DSM that individuals with OCD report a strong feeling of disgust when things that trigger compulsions are faced ( American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In order to rectify his routine, Melvin takes the extreme measure to visit Carol’s house because she called off work and disrupted his routine. In an impulsive act like this, he projects himself as weird and obsessive to Carol and is unable to fulfill his request of having a meal served by her. Moreover,with his routine out of line he feels incomplete and has no way of functioning throughout the day. Even while performing the compulsions the people who have OCD feel incomplete and are uneasy until things are deemed as accurate ( American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
To illustrate the characters being affected by sanity: “ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams that share us nightly” (3.2). With this being stated one can see Macbeth and his wife already losing sleep and wondering about the dangers that lie ahead. Their sanity is becoming borderline to insanity and just waiting like a ticking time bomb to explode. “Terrible dreams that shake us nightly”: the guilt of killing Duncan was too overbearing that now Macbeth must rely on fate that allows his sanity to loosen and become insane. Sanity is the only thing that Macbeth had control over for a while, before the murder: “will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
When Hamlet was examined, peopled discovered his obsessive attitude towards relationships, revenge, and himself. Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder caused by recurrent or disturbing thoughts. Abnormalities, or an imbalance in the neurotransmitters, or brain chemicals, are thought to be involved in OCD. In certain individuals, OCD could be triggered by a combination of genetic, neurological, behavioral, cognitive and environmental factors (psychcentral).
Shakespeare, like any other man in the 16th and 17th century, saw ambitious and dominant women as evil and even disturbing or disturbed. From Macbeth, we can see Shakespeare feels women should be challenged and punished because they are trying to change society. Nowadays these ambitious and dominant women are regarded as brave and respected because of their ambition, such as Lady Macbeth’s ambition to become Queen. Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as mentally disturbed.
Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, is a play that mainly focuses on one common theme of insanity. Macbeth gradually becomes plagued by intense guilt as his desire for power drives him to attain his goals by any means necessary, including committing murder. He kills Duncan in cold blood in order to become King, has Banquo killed by three murderers because he wishes to maintain his position as King, and finally, he has Macduff’s family slaughtered. Each of these occurrences takes place because of Macbeth’s will to be King, or they are a result of his guilt. Nonetheless, they are all completed of his free will, which is what causes him to deteriorate mentally.
To diagnosis OCD, many doctors do a psychological examination. To do this they try to understand the patients' thoughts, feelings, symptoms, and behaviors by talking with the patient and their families. Another thing they would conduct would be a blood test to look at the blood cell count, thyroid problems, and alcohol and drug abuse. However, in the movie this did not occur although you could clearly tell by the Hughes symptoms. The symptoms of OCD can be obsessive,
One of Shakespeare’s superlative examples of a troubled mind is located in Macbeth. The impertinent character Lady Macbeth exhibited many symptoms of depression and antisocial personality disorder. While mental illness is generally developed through an accumulation of several events, as it was in Lady Macbeth’s case, it was definitely more profound after the murder of King Duncan. Prior to killing the king, Lady Macbeth unveiled sociopathic behavior through her negligence of others.
It becomes hard to recognize her as the story progresses, sleepwalking through the castle and constantly rubbing her hands as she attempts to remove the innocent blood shed on her hands driven by her guilt-ridden mind. Lady Macbeth is unable to surpass the evil she has set on herself and in the end; the guilt she prayed against became her worst enemies. She was beyond repair and it lead to her suicide. Furthermore, in the yellow wallpaper the protagonist becomes mentally ill for being locked in a room deprived of life. The majority of the story takes place in a room which only induces pain deep within herself evoking negative mental thoughts.
Bryanna E. McCool Mrs. Dean British Literature 25 January 2018 Mental Illness in Shakespeare’s Macbeth The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, a play wrought with prophecies, deception, guilt, and death, brings light to the symptoms of mental illnesses and their effects on the human brain’s ability to reason, trust, and act in times of pressure. Both Macbeth and his lady are plagued by mental illness, and the effects of their illness only grow as the play evolves. Macbeth’s symptoms of schizophrenia and anxiety, as well as Lady Macbeth’s anxiety as well as hallucinations that eventually push her to suicide prove that not only can mental illness alter the way a person sees a situation, but it can also drive them to harm others and themselves.
They are unwanted and upsetting, causing severe anxiety or distress. For example: aggression (fears of harming others), contamination (fears of being dirty),and exactness. Separating OCD obsessions from normal obsessions are the frequencies, intensities, and annoyances in doing such habits. Consequently,Compulsions are behaviors that individuals with obsessions display in order to relieve themselves of their anxiety. The compulsive behavior is directly related to the excessive thought.
To begin, OCD stands for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Hyman 14). Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder marked by persistent, unwanted thoughts that intrude upon one’s mind that causes compulsive behaviors. OCD also includes unneeded actions that one feels must be done over and over again in certain rigid, consistent ways (9). Obsessions are persistent impulses, images, ideas, or thoughts that intrude into a person’s mind, causing intense anxiety or distress. They can be inappropriate, make little sense, and hard to ignore (14).
OCD is defined as a mental disorder in which there are obsessive and compulsive thoughts. These obsessions are impulses which repeat uncontrollably, like a needle becoming stuck in an old record. Thoughts associated with the obsessions make little to no sense, and evoke feelings of doubt, fear, perfection, and/or organization (What is OCD? 2014, April 28). It is an anxiety disorder, where the unwanted thoughts are excessively repetitive, and the compulsions create ritualized behaviors. For example, washing one’s hands over and over, or constantly checking to make sure the doors are locked.