Shrek Psychology

PTSD is a is a psychological disorder caused by either experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event, often when death or the threat to ones life is involved.

War veterans, rape victims, car crash victims, and child abuse victims are all highly susceptible to developing PTSD. The risk is increased exponentially if the ability of the body to react to stress with the regulation of released chemicals and hormones is off and the victim is prone to inheriting high anxiety or depression.

There is no specific cure to PTSD, but therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing have

been proven to lessen the symptoms.

Intrusive Memories-

-Flashbacks

-Dreams

-Reminders

Avoidance-

-Topic

-Location

-Reminders

Thinking and Mood-

-Pessimist

-Emotionless

-Relationship Strains

Emotions and Reactions-

-Highly Reactive

-Sleeping and Concentration

-Expressiveness

DSM Says...

Fiona

When Fiona was a small child, she had a curse put on her, making her turn into an ogre at night.

This horror made her unable to express her feelings to Shrek and was depressed for years.

After consulting with Donkey, she is able to overcome her symptoms.

PTSD

Schizhoid Personality Disorder

The DSM states that an individual must fit into four or more of the following criteria in order to be diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder:

~Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family.

~Almost always chooses solitary activities. ~Has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person. ~Takes pleasure in few, if any, activities.

~Lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives. ~Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others.

~Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity.

Fiona and PTSD

How does an ogre have Schizoid Personality disorder??

• thought to form from genetic/environmental factors
• stronger likelihood if your parents have the disorder

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

• diagnosed in adulthood or with at least 12 months of symptoms
• symptoms can be treated; the disorder cannot
• therapy must be personalized, often moved into group settings slowly

Symptoms

• marked by aggression, emotional indifference, and a lack of desire to make friends, or form romantic relationships

• Shrek does not desire close relationships
• screams "Get out of my swamp!" to everyone
• chooses solitary activity whenever possible
• wants to rescue Fiona alone, tells Donkey he wont live with him
• takes pleasure in only a few things; including but not limited to burping, bathing in mud, being violent, and making similis about onions
• initially shrek lacks close friends but ogretime becomes close with only a few people
• indifferent to praise or criticism
• shows little change when Fiona praises her knight for saving him
• shows even more indifference towqards Lord Farquaads criticisism
• emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity
• when isnt Shrek being like this?!?!?!?

Symptoms

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Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment

• Psychoanalytic Theory
• authoritarian or distant parental behavior
• conditional love
• Traumatic childhood events
• divorce, death

Provocative and seductive behavior

Relationships = more intimate than they really are

Attention-seeking

Influenced easily

Speech and style used to impress others

Emotions liable to change quickly

Manipulative behavior

Exaggerated emotions

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• Seek treatment after failed relationship or period of depression
• Not an impediment to daily life
• Difficult social relationships
• Behavior, History, Overall Appearance, Psychological Evaluation
• Talk Therapy, counseling, medication

Overview

Lord

Farquaad

Background

Characters and Disorders:

Shrek

• Schizoid Personality Disorder

Fiona

• PTSD

Lord Farquaad

• Histrionic Personality Disorder

• Main antagonist

• Comically short in stature
• Ruthless ruler of Duloc
• Wants his kingdom to be perfect
• gets rid of fairytale creatures
• manipulates them

• Wants to become king, but has to marry a princess
• Chooses Fiona, a princess locked in a tower guarded by a dragon
• Quick temper
• Seeks attention

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Shrek Psychology