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  • Essay / Diagnosing Heathcliff, what's wrong? - 1671

    Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, includes the struggle for happiness, like getting married, and revenge. Heathcliff grew up neglected and abused. When he fell in love with his long-time friend, Catherine Earnshaw, she betrayed him by choosing another man over him, which made Heathcliff bitter and rude to everyone who came into contact with him. He goes out of his way to make everyone miserable and unhappy, just like him. Although Heathcliff's view is that he is "a mad man", he actually suffers from antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorder, and depression. An adult suffering from an antisocial disorder normally begins with a conduct disorder as a child. Children with CD (conduct disorder) are diagnosed when the child has a history of "repetitive and persistent patterns of behavior in which the basic rights of others or key age-appropriate societal norms are violated, as in demonstrates the presence of three (or more) of the following criteria during the last twelve months, with at least one criterion present during the last six months. These criteria include aggression towards all living things, such as people and animals, damage to property, deception and theft, and failure to follow rules. Conduct disorder is based on three levels: mild, moderate and severe. Mild cases are people who lie, miss school and stay out late without consent. Children aged 10 and over must present at least one of the symptoms that make up CD. They would then be classified in the mild stage since their symptom is deception and theft. The moderate form of this disorder includes theft and damage to property. We speak of serious MC when a person acts or deeply considers rape, abuse, theft, vandalism... in the middle of a newspaper...... their profession and/or their education. In the 40s, there are disturbances in reality or communication with serious disturbances in work, school, family, judgment, thought or behavior. The 30s where behavior is affected by hallucinations or delusions. There may also be serious problems with communication or judgment, as well as difficulty functioning in all areas. Stage 20 represents minimal risk of harming yourself or others, failing to maintain personal hygiene, or impairing communication. Level 10 is at the point of seriously injuring oneself or others, failing to maintain personal hygiene, or committing a suicidal act while awaiting death. If Heathcliff were diagnosed, he would be found close to 30. This number is given to him because he becomes delusional, the main example being that he began to believe that Catherine was haunting him..