What mental disorder is in the movie "Alice in the wonderland "?

 

The bulk of the characters show signs of different psychiatric conditions of some way or another but without directly referencing mental wellbeing, while looking closely at adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The White Rabbit's fascination with promptness, for example, and hence his time-related terror and paranoia, corresponds to a stress-related condition such as General Anxiety Disorder; the caterpillar, still apparently smoking a hookah, talks in riddles in a sluggish, prophet-like manner as though he were the superior of Alice, which is typical of grandiose delusions (GD).

Furthermore while Alice exhibits signs of delusional schizophrenia, and the Mad Hatter exhibits symptoms of both Bipolar disorder and PTSD, Alice in Wonderland is a novel so infused with psychiatric illness that both of these characters actually have syndromes named after them: Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and Mad Hatter Disease (synonymous with chronic mercury poisoning).

Alice in wonderland syndrome

It is a disorienting, perception-affecting neuropsychological disorder. Scale distortions such as micropsia, macropsia, pelopsia or teleopsia are encountered by people. In other sensory modalities, scale distortion can occur. Anecdotal studies indicate that in infancy, the symptoms are normal, with many individuals developing out of them in their adolescence. It indicates that at sleep initiation, AiWS is often a normal experience and has been known to occur regularly due to a lack of sleep.

Altered body image experiences are a prominent and sometimes upsetting symptom. The person can find that they are confused about the size and shape of parts of their body (or all of them). They can feel as though their body is becoming smaller or expanding. The syndrome of Alice in Wonderland often entails visual distortions of objects' size or form. Migraines, use of hallucinogenic medications, and viral mononucleosis are other potential causes and symptoms of the condition.

Related vision disturbances have been encountered by patients with certain neurological diseases. They are also "Lilliputian" hallucinations, which means that objects look either smaller or bigger than they really are.

Either micropsia or macropsia can occur in patients. Micropsia is an abnormal vision disorder that typically happens in the form of visual hallucination, where individuals who are affected perceive items as smaller than they really are. Macropsia is a disorder in which the patient sees something greater than it truly is.

In Wonderland Syndrome, the person afflicted by Alice can also miss the feeling of time, an issue related to the loss of spatial perspective. In other words, time, akin to an LSD experience, appears to move very slowly. The lack of understanding on time and space contributes to a warped perception of velocity. For instance, in fact, one may be inching along ever so slowly, but it would seem as if one were uncontrollably sprinting along a moving walkway, contributing to serious, overwhelming disorientation. This will then lead the participant to feel as though the movement is pointless, even inside his or her own home.

In comparison, certain patients can have more severe and overt hallucinations in tandem with a high fever, seeing images that are not there and misinterpreting events and circumstances.