Talk:Betty Cooper/@comment-31433322-20170302224632/@comment-11565898-20170306152533

I don't think she has a mental illness per day rather that she hasn't had a positive outlet for her aggression due to her awful parents and their expectations of her. Think, Betty always has to be "on". She supposed to be perfect in every aspect of the word. That means that she can't reveal her true self to people as easily. She doens't get to be angry or sad when she wants to because "perfect girls" don't get upset. Even Archie can't see who she really is ("you're too good for me") and that's supposed to be her best friend.

That's an enormous pressure for anyone to have, let alone a teenage girl.

So it's understandable that she blew up on Chuck and associated his wrongdoing with the "wrong" that happened between Polly and Jason. In that moment, Chuck is what Betty's thinks Jason was. In that moment, Betty sees herself as another "Polly" type and she wants the justice that in her mind, she sees Polly didn't get.

For me, I think Betty's explosive anger in these moments is what makes her real. No person is perfect or always happy, so how can we expect even a fictional character to be? That doensn't mean she has a psychological disorder, but rather she is a person trying to deal with the anger and sadness that she keeps to herself at all times.

It is possible that she could later have a disorder, but at the moment, I don't see it.