Thoughts on Pixar's Inside Out? We all face situations like surviving on broccoli pizza, loosing a moving van and living in a house where rats go to die but we don't loose our personality in the process. If one of our emotions is the ultimate control freak, maybe.

Supposedly this movie explains neuroscience in a way kids can understand; I don't know of a situation in which a person looses their personality. Splitting a personality I can relate to. Loosing our personality? No.

Jeanette Isabelle

I've known mentally ill people who lost their personalities. I know what it takes to get a court to order an involuntary commitment of a loved one.

I've also seen dissociative-type disorder behavior from teenagers going through crisis.

My neuroscience degree seems to not actually exist, so I wouldn't feel good about critiquing the movie from that perspective. I will say that it spurred some good conversations between me and my recombinant DNA.

Dissociative behavior does not describe what we've seen in the movie.

Jeanette Isabelle

I seem to recall that Riley showed some dissociative symptoms especially around a lack of feeling regarding what's going on around her.

Riley did display a symptom of disassociation; what she had was not disassociation.

Edit: Disassociation and what Riley experienced are both personality disorders.

Jeanette Isabelle

All I can say is that Inside Out made me cry like a little girl!

I cry every time I watch that movie.

Jeanette Isabelle

I have not seen this flick. Not likely to, given that it evidently is not a musical comedy

There are comic relief scenes like Fear having dream duty; there's no music.

Jeanette Isabelle

Me too, Phaedrus! We've watched it several times here, and I really enjoy it. It reminded me a lot of a sort of similar experience when I was about 13. Big move across the country, lost belongings, the challenge of trying to fit in, having a family who loved and supported me but who I thought didn't understand.... I was lost for while.

The movie takes it all to an extreme, but exaggeration is popular in movies, especially kids movies. It did a great job and helping my kids understand emotions and how easy it can be to jostle your own or someone else's emotional roller coaster, and how hard it can be to control once it's rolling.