POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
The reason I am deciding to look at the more mental side of Miss Havisham is to try and portray this on a more artistic level and have more understanding of how I could physically show this through make up. After researching different theories of what Miss Havisham could potentially have I found PTSD to be the most fitting. Usually the patient suffers from this from a more physical perspective such a rape, car crash, ex military experience etc but it can also happen psychologically if other mental disorders occur.
Miss Havisham is constantly living in the moment she was most happiest at, just before her wedding. Many symptoms such as irritability, depression, hopelessness, lack of sleep all have a negative effect on her appearance, which are the most common side effects for PTSD. For example lack of sleep and depression being a very big cause. Lack of sleep can cause ageing of the skin very quickly and from what I have looked into, she isn't particularly very old (I understand that in the olden days your skin ages a lot quicker than it does in today's society but still not as drastically as hers has). Depression will also reduce her appetite causing her not to each very much making her body seem skeletal, which Dickens describes her as.
LACK OF SUNLIGHT
'You are not afraid of a women who has never seen the sun since you were born?'
I was really interested in what state her skin would actually be in if she hasn't stepped foot in the sun for approx 11 years. Very pale skin is an obvious side to not seeing sunlight for so many years but I was interested in what a lack of vitamin D really does to you.
Lack of vitamin D in adults can cause osteomalacia which is a condition that causes bones to be very brittle and weak.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/06/16/sun-can-protect-you-against-skin-cancer.aspx
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2120719/Staying-sun-wreck-health.html
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/16/7-physical-effects-sleep-deprivation/
http://www.helpguide.org/articles/ptsd-trauma/post-traumatic-stress-disorder.htm
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