Great Russian actress plays Ophelia (English subs)

Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet may be the most visually-striking adaptation of the Bard's masterpiece on film. Anastasiya Vertinskaya is an actress of ravishingly beautiful expression. She gives the most fragile and magical performance of Shakespeare's iconic heroine that I have ever seen. Maestro Dmitri Shostakovich composes.

This is the first installment in a series of great portrayals of mental illness on the silver and small screen. I am not a psychiatrist, but I do study DBT and CBT, and for entertainment purposes considered what might be standing in Ophelia's way.

Possible diagnosis:

Dependent personality disorder:

Symptoms according to the World Health Organization:
(3 of the following for criteria)

*Encouraging or allowing others to make most of one's important life decisions.

*Subordination of one's own needs to those of others on whom one is dependent, and undue compliance with their wishes.

*Unwillingness to make even reasonable demands on the people one depends on;

*Feeling uncomfortable or helpless when alone, because of exaggerated fears of inability to care for oneself.
*Preoccupation with fears of being abandoned by a person with whom one has a close relationship, and of being left to care for oneself.

*Limited capacity to make everyday decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others.

A patient can have a secondary diagnosis, and while I think this personality disorder could have been underlying, there is a term called a "psycho social stresser" which is a traumatic even that brings out mental disorders.

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