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Poison Ivy - Pamela Isley came from a wealthy family, though her parents kept a vast...

Poison Ivy - Pamela Isley came from a wealthy family, though her parents kept a vast emotional divide between them and their daughter. As she grew up, she went to university to study biochemistry. During her time at school, Isely was easily seduced by her professors and used for human experimentation. She was injected with various poisons and toxins, which nearly killed her, and also “[drove] her insane”. She was abandoned by her professor and left in a hospital or six months. Triggered by the sudden betrayal, Isley is prone to violent mood swings: “being sweet one moment and like poison the next”. Her boyfriend was later mysteriously killed, which propelled her to travel to Gotham.

            Isley is known to use seduction tactics to get her way, seducing various guards to help her escape Arkham, and even going so far as to seduce the dictators of foreign countries into giving her absolute power. She uses her seduction as a way to prove herself more powerful than the men she abuses. When she first arrives in Arkham, she develops an obsession over Batman, since he was the only man she ever failed to control.

Isley still retains empathy, despite her criminal background. She has been known to donate vast amounts of money to ecological relief funds. She houses and cares for sixteen orphans left homeless after an earthquake in Gotham. Even her criminal origins began with the intent to steal money to use for ecological preservation projects. Upon her last stay in Arkham, she tasks herself with wanting to purify Gotham and make the world safer for plant life.

  1. What dx would you give Poison Ivy? Provide three characteristics that fit the diagnosis.

8)   What treatment would you suggest for Poison Ivy to participate in given here dx?

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This seems to be a fictional thread as a case study. Here the girl, Isley suffers from a mixed condition of mania and drug dependence. She already had an unbalanced family background and would have been haunted by that. Also she was infused with cocktails of experimental poisons which accompanied her emotional Imbalance and led to the current status of a fearless and crooked criminal who commits offense with goodwill and seduce the authorised persons to escape.

She should be given several sittings of psychiatric counseling, with and without her parents if possible.

She should be given lithium compounds.

She should be given new ideas to find peace.

She could be recommended to divert her focus to non violence and happy living techniques of philosophy and psychiatry.

She should be supported from hospital as well as family.

She could be given activities to be engaged in.

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