Mental Disturbance

Introduction In the film Falling Down, the main character D-FENS, played by Michael Douglas, deals with many ongoing social pressures that ultimately lead to his demise. At the start of his day, D-FENS' long-accumulated personal problems hit a boiling point and carry the man to a severe mental breakdown. He abandons his grid locked car during a traffic jam and decides to walk to the place he calls "home." Viewers are later opened to the …

…owner, Mr. Lee, charges .85¢ for a Coca-Cola. D-FENS then demands that prices "roll back to 1960" (Schumacher, Falling Down). People with Borderline Personality Disorders are "among the most difficult to treat with psycho-therapy because their relationships with their therapist may become as intense and unstable as their other personal relationships" (Microsoft Encarta 2000). Like, D-FENS who considers suicide at the end of the film, "10% of people with this disorder commit suicide by the age of 30" (Microsoft Encarta 2000).