Daisy keeps the chicken carcasses under her bed to mark her time at McLean Hospital. A deeper psychological assessment is not provided other than the suspicion that Daisy's father was in love with his daughter. Daisy would receive two roasted chickens a week from her father.
Lisa reports back to the other girls that Daisy has stashed rows of whole chicken carcasses beneath her bed, and uses the laxatives to help her pass the enormous amounts of poultry she consumes.
Daisy is a beautiful, well-groomed young woman whose only real outward sign of her illness is being reclusive and unwilling to socialize. However, she suffers from severe obsessive compulsive disorder and a laxative addiction, and is also deeply traumatized from a lifetime of abuse at the hands of her father.
While in the room, Susanna asks Daisy why she only eats rotisserie chicken and why she never eats in the cafeteria. Daisy reveals that if she tried to eat anything else, she would throw up and she feel ashamed eating in the cafeteria and having people watch her.
Lisa is proud of her diagnosis as a sociopath, a personality driven by self-interest. Lisa is wildly unpredictable. She throws tantrums and plans escapes for others when she isn't making her own attempts to escape. Kaysen is initially in awe of Lisa's apparent confidence.
Daisy keeps the chicken carcasses under her bed to mark her time at McLean Hospital. A deeper psychological assessment is not provided other than the suspicion that Daisy's father was in love with his daughter. Daisy would receive two roasted chickens a week from her father.
Daisy Randone is an 18-year-old who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), has been sexually abused by a trusted adult, and has learned to rely on maladaptive coping strategies, such as bulimia and self-harm. She is introduced early in the film as a pretentious, but kind patient on the ward.
But Lisa's hatefulness soon surfaces in short order and she verbally attacks Daisy, exposing the fact that Daisy's has had an incestuous relationship with her father for years and this leaves Daisy desperate and in tears. Though Susanna tries to sooth things over, Daisy withdraws to her room.
It is surmised by the other girls that Daisy used laxatives due to all the roast chicken she was eating. Daisy's father visited twice a week and brought her an entire roasted chicken from her mother.
Brittany Murphy as Daisy Randone, a sexually abused eighteen-year-old girl with OCD who self-harms and is addicted to laxatives. She keeps and hides the carcasses of the cooked chicken that her father brings her in her room.
It teaches a huge, multi-faceted lesson to all of us: think before you speak, remember that you don't know what other people are going through, and be aware that you don't know if they are stable or not. Do not say unnecessary or cruel things, and do not attempt to push someone's buttons.
As a child it is believed that she was raped by her father. This event leads to The Electra Complex: the complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around the age of four, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and a wish to exclude the parent of the same sex.
One day, Alice suffers some sort of mental collapse and is taken to the maximum-security ward by a pair of nurses. Curious, several of the girls decide to visit Alice on her new ward, which is markedly different from their own.
Yes, Lisa Rowe gets released as Susanna runs into her at Harvard Square with a son years later. Her life has become that of a suburban single mother. During her institutionalization, Lisa was known for her escapes, which lasted a couple of days, and her scheming nature.
Last weekend I enjoyed watching Girl, Interrupted (1999) for the first time, a movie that is based on a true story and Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name.
Lisa : [to Daisy] Help me understand, Dais 'cause, I thought you didn't do Valium. Tell me how this safety net is working for you. Tell me that you don't take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down. Tell me how your *daddy* helps you cope with that.
It is revealed in the first episode of Season 2 that her first name is Daisy. She was sexually abused and may have had an incestuous relationship with her father, Henry McCready, and her mother didn't do anything to stop this.
Daisy is eager to please and willing to give her all to help this suffering Mexican-American family. Sadly, she seems to have PTSD herself after a brutal first home where she was forced to fight other dogs and the loss of her litter of puppies to a garbage truck (a terrifying scene revealed in flashback).
The film shows that Daisy visits the clinic annually from Thanksgiving to Christmas. However, the scene at her new home presents that she still suffers from Bulimia Nervosa and Persistent Depressive Disorder.
Susanna does not kiss Lisa and does not exhibit any lesbian tendencies in her memoir. It is implied that Susanna was diagnosed with compulsive promiscuity due to an affair with her high school English teacher as part of her borderline personality or character disorder.
Janet Webber – anorexia. Cynthia – lesbian (a “diagnosis” that would not be made now). Unnamed character – Tourette's syndrome. The movie takes place in 1967 and 1968.
She is capable of affection (she seems genuinely fond of Nick and occasionally seems to love Gatsby sincerely), but not of sustained loyalty or care. She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter 7.
Polly is a disfigured patient who was hospitalized for schizophrenia and depression. Polly has severe scarring on her body, the result of setting herself on fire.
Daisy Randone is an ISFP personality type and is artistically gifted. As an ISFP, she has a strong moral compass and filters everything through her value system.
Borderline Personality Disorder as portrayed in Girl, Interrupted. Prior to the events of her memoir, it appears Susanna was primarily being treated for depression. While in the hospital, however, Susanna was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.