She exclaims to her husband that her life has been stolen from her, and as her emotion rises further she shouts, "I've endured this custody! I've endured this imprisonment!" This outcry demonstrates feelings of confinement and lack of control for the emotional condition in which she finds herself. It was prescribed by her doctors that she and her husband move from their home in London and settle down in Richmond, where it was quiet and peaceful and she would be less likely to become agitated. Instead, she became even more withdrawn. The symptoms of her affliction are in fact so great, that she tells her husband that she chooses death rather than to stay in such an intolerable place any longer.
In real life, Virginia Woolf was diagnosed with a manic-depressive disorder, now more commonly known as bipolar disorder I. Without outside knowledge of her condition, watching the movie alone could easily be interpreted that she suffers from major depression disorder because it did not provide evidence that she experienced periods of mania. Oddly enough, though at times her disorder wholly disabled her ability to focus and greatly hindered her as a writer, it has been speculated that some of her greatest work was done in these manic states, inducing a sort of creativity and genius (Literature Network, " 2013). From a biological perspective, it is very likely that Virginia inherited some degree of neuroticism or predisposition that would make her particularly vulnerable to form a psychological disorder. It has also been established through extensive studies that bipolar disorder has the highest variance of liability than any other psychological disorder, having rates as high as 80-90% liability. Interestingly, even though mania is an aspect of the disorder, it has a 70% liability that is separate and unrelated to the depressive episodes. This suggests that the two components of bipolar disorder have genetically independent susceptibilities (Butcher, 2014).
