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Analysis of Psychopathology in Popular Film

She was also shown being concern , or maybe even afraid , telling her son you 're not safe ' as if acting on the natural desire of a mother to protect her child from the dangerous world

4 . The obsessions or compulsions are not side effects of a substance

Never was Howard Hughes even shown taking any kind of drugs . He doesn 't even drink or smoke . He likes milk , in a bottle , with the cap unopened

With all the criteria involved in diagnosing OCD for a person considered , Howard Hughes would pass

the test of having one

Another odd thing about Howard Hughes is his intense obsession with perfection . So intense that he is willing to risk millions of dollars and a lot of precious time to specific goals he sets . He said something like , if remembered right , if you make a mistake you do the process all over again from the beginning . In films or in planes , he really does repeat if he thinks he has to no matter how unpractical it obviously seems or how hard the world opposes him

In code 307 .20 of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diss (fourth edition , Howard Hughes would qualify to having a Tic Dis Not Otherwise Specified . Though some websites have stated Howard Hughes of having Tourette 's Dis , but this seems to be shaky if undergone closer inspections . First of all , Tic diss are under the category of Diss Usually Diagnosed in Infancy , Childhood , or Adolescence . And , because in the film , Howard Hughes ' vocalization tics only came up when he was already working at an age of at least 24 years old . That already eliminated him for having either Tourette 's Dis Chronic Motor or Vocal Tic Dis , or Transient Tic Dis . Plus to qualify for these other...

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