Mental Illness

I was really intrigued to look at mental illness because i feel this would play a big part on Claudia's appearance. She is agoraphobic and is already displaying some psychotic behaviour and from a lifetime of isolation and horror movies it would eventually mess with you head. The way she becomes different characters and transforms her look immediately makes me think of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is believed to be caused by a biochemical imbalance in the brain. The main characterisations are delusions, hallucinations, disturbances in thinking and communication, and a withdrawal from social activity. While schizophrenia is a serious disorder of the brain which affects a person's ability to know what is real and what is not. 
The most common signs of Schizophrenia are social withdrawal, isolation and suspiciousness of others. All of these signs and symptoms really relate to Claudia. She is withdrawn from the world as she is an agoraphobic. She really suspicious of her 'imaginary' boyfriend and thinks he is cheating on her.

After researching and looking into Schizophrenia i noticed one of thee side effects is 'Shaving head or removal of body hair.' I feel like this would fit my image of Claudia perfectly. She would have a shaven head for many reasons. One because of her mental state she is in, as shaving her head would be because of the Schizophrenia. Britney Spears is an example of a women who wasn't in the right mental state and shaved her head. It might be a sense of release as she is shaving it off. Another reason for it would be for her constant transformations as she becomes a different girl and has a different image depending on the film she is watching. So if her head is shaven she would be able to use different wigs to transform her image. 

However after discussing this with my tutors we decided it would be better for me to design a hair look, but for whatever my design is although i would be using my models real hair, to Claudia it would be a wig because i think she would be bald underneath it.