Don Juan DeMarco (1995)

what would be the diagnosis of Johnny Depp’s character in the 1995 movie “Don Juan DeMarco?”?

I’m doing a case-study for Abnormal psych. The movie makes it difficult to determine what is real and is’nt. Depressive Disorder NOS-Major Depressive Episode with severe psychotic features-Dillusions of Granduer, Suicidal…..OR……Dysthymic Disorder, MDD single episode and Brief Psychotic Disorder, Suicidal…..OR…your recommendations???

The character’s primary symptom is that of delusions of grandeur – he seems not to have hallucinations, his thought processes are not disorganzied, and many other not’s…so the movie does not really depict a realistic mental disorder.

He does not seem dysthymic [no pleasure], nor does he seem depressed.

Generally, it would be Delusional Disorder: widipedia has a section on this.

“Delusional disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a psychotic mental illness that involves holding one or more non-bizarre delusions in the absence of any other significant psychopathology (signs or symptoms of mental illness). In particular a person with delusional disorder has never met any other criteria for schizophrenia and does not have any marked hallucinations, although tactile (touch) or olfactory (smell) hallucinations may be present if they are related to the theme of the delusion.

A person with delusional disorder can be quite functional and does not tend to show any odd or bizarre behaviour except as a direct result of the delusional belief.

It is worth noting that the term paranoia was previously used in psychiatry to denote what is now called ‘delusional disorder’. The modern psychiatric use of the word paranoia is subtly different but now rarely refers to this specific diagnosis.” Wikipedia

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