There is an invisible epidemic. It is ever growing and yet remains hidden. Anxiety is an increasing problem in modern society and yet remains, most of the time, swept under the rug. There has been attempts to show what it means to have different anxieties and mental disorders in the film industry. While they may be made for money and for the public to enjoy, it still allows people to gather information and problems people must face every day. The Silver Linings Playbook captures the problem of a specific anxiety disorder (Russell, 2012). It follows the life of Pat Solitano, who was released from a mental institution in the opening scene. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a form of an anxiety disorder (Russell, 2012). This paper will analyze …show more content…
Pat is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and displays two hyperactive mood swings: maniac and depressive (Martinez, 2004) (Russell, 2014). During his maniac mood swings, he demonstrates poor judgement, aggressive behavior, unwise financial choices and increased drive to achieve goals. During his depressive swings, Pat is sad and hopeless and demonstrates anxiety and trepidation and considers suicide and suffers from chronic pain. Tiffany on the other hand treats in order to compensate for feeling guilty sleep with everyone in her office and then treats anyone who comes close to her as a threat. This in itself is difficult to understand. She frantically tries to avoid her grief by having extreme relationships and social problems (Russell, …show more content…
Pat, when in a depressive mood swing, suffers anxiety of being forgotten, lonely and betrayed (Martinez, 2004). The stress of knowing he has this anxiety also can create more anxiety and stress (Martinez, 2004). The treatment in the movie he receives is therapy and medication, however cognitive therapy would mostly help him more in the long wrong (Comer, 2014). He needs to process the stress and anxiety and emotion in order to recover and progress forward and not be caught in the past (Comer, 2014). Pat must face his dysfunctional thoughts and work through them. Tiffany is stressed through her unprocessed feeling and is then anxious when it comes time to face her real thoughts and emotions. This stress causes her to have anxiety toward anything having to do with relationships because it relates back to her unresolved feelings with her late husband. She is avoiding this. In order to process these emotions, she will need to probably need to go through some exposure therapy (Bonanno, 2004). She will need to slowly be able to say her husbands name and slowly start looking at pictures and then ultimately visit his grave (Bonanno, 2004). This way she will be able to face her feelings, process them, and then move forward in
Jake’s origin of his Anxiety Disorder stemmed from the rise in the difficulty of his classes. More specifically, it could have been a behavioral, humanistic, and/or a cognitive factor of which induced his anxiety. Depending on how the counselor came up with Jake’s diagnosis, comparative analysis can be applied to the three possible variable factors of Jake’s counselor’s reasoning, and how other psychologists view each of the same behavioral, humanistic, and cognitive factors today.
In this paper the reader will be able to find a variety of different areas covered. A detailed summary of the movie 28 days directed by Betty Thomas in 2000 will start the paper. The diagnostic criteria of a psychiatric disease will be included along with rationales why the main character fits the diagnosis of disease. Included is the effectiveness or non-effectiveness of coping mechanisms. Pharmacological with classification and non-pharmacological treatments will be included in addition to discussion of ethical and legal issues. This paper will include whether it would be an acceptable fit for patients or families with the same diagnosis. Lastly, will be an overall conclusion of the information provided in the paper.
He was diagnosed as having a bipolar disorder. He started to see Dr. Patel in a one-on-one session. The therapist uses the theoretical approach of trying to trigger Pats emotions. As Pat enters the waiting room to check in for his appointment with a therapist, he hears the song from his wedding with his ex-wife playing in the office. The song immediately triggers his anger and he started throwing stuff and loses it looking for the speakers in the waiting area. His therapist comes out of his office as the other patients in the waiting room stare in astonishment. Pat then goes into the room with the therapist, who then began to explain that he purposely played that song to see if it was still a trigger to his anger. He explains to Pat that he needs to come up in a way to control that anger, and Pat tells him that his control strategy is “excelsior”, which means him finding a silver lining in every
Pat ends up asking Tiffany on what seemed to be a date after she expressed her desire to be friends, where the two engage in mutual self-disclosure, and Tiffany ends up offering to take Nikki, Pat’s wife, a letter. However, this soon ends when Tiffany concludes that Pat is saying that she is crazier than him. Their openness and mutual self-disclosure deteriorates, she retracts the offer to help, and trashes the diner table before storming out. She also shows jealousy towards Nikki, both in her cold demeanor while discussing the letter and during the dance competition when she begins drinking with another guy upon realizing Nikki was there and when she runs out of the building after seeing Pat whisper into Nikki’s ear. However, their relationship continues to develop in a more positive way despite these
According to Sharp (2012), “anxiety disorders are the most widespread causes of distress among individuals seeking treatment from mental health services in the United States” (p359).
Individuals who have this disorder suffer from reckless behavior, unstable relationships with others, and problems controlling emotions. Examples of Tiffany’s unstable relationships is her relationship with her sister, Ronnie’s wife and the fact that she had sex with everyone at her workplace, which caused her to get fired. Patrick and Tiffany do hit it off by talking about the effects of various medications. This creates a “positive” relationship, which Patrick is looking for. The relationship that seemed to be most healing for him has to be his relationship with Tiffany as they come to an agreement by supporting each other’s dreams (Tiffany delivers Patrick’s letter to his wife and Pat learns to dance for her). Throughout the movie, they think and talk as “us.” For example, when Patrick goes to walk Tiffany home after the dinner, she states that they are the same because they do not lie. Tiffany and Patrick continue to meet more often and they begin to have positive feelings for one another. Tiffany shows prosocial behavior, such as caring, honesty, sharing, etc., which is an action intended to help someone. She even helps fixing Patrick’s relationship with his father by not changing anything but supporting his father by believing in superstitious things. She just manages to blend right in. The fact is Tiffany is blunt and honest about her life. She will be right in your face, telling you she has done this or that because she is not afraid as it is whom she is. This is shown when Patrick calls her a slut. She owns up to it and says she has forgiven herself, which is something Patrick cannot do. He cannot own up to his problems, which causes him a lot of
Pat Solitano, after finding his significant other with another man, beats him. He got sent to a mental healing center where he was diagnosed with bipolarity. He got discharged from the hospital and went to live with his parents. He is hesitant to take his meds since he doesn't care how they affect him. The main thing he needs is to attempt and get back together with his significant other; however she wrote him off and got a restraining order on him. His companion, Ronnie welcomes him to supper and he meets Ronnie's sister-in-law, Tiffany who's likewise reeling from a personal loss. They have a connection, however Pat is still committed to his ex, and declines to do anything. When he learns Tiffany sees her, he requests that Tiffany give her
The character of the husband, John, in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is introduced as a respected physician and a caring husband who strives to improve the mental health of his wife, the narrator, who is diagnosed with temporary nervous condition. John tries throughout the story to apply professional treatment methods and medications in his approach to helping his wife gain strength. However, his patient, his wife, seems to disregard John’s professional opinions and act as if she is following his advices only during his awakening presence with her. The narrator seems to be in need of John’s positive opinion about the status of her mental condition in order to avoid the criticism even though she disagrees with his treatment methodology. John, without doubt, cares for his wife and her wellbeing, but he does not realize how his treatment method negatively impacts their relationship his wife’s progress towards gaining strength. Although John was portrayed as a caring and a loving physician and husband to the narrator through out most of the story, he was also suggested as being intrusive and directive to a provoking level in the mind of the narrator.
Pat’s father is very superstitious about football. He firmly believes in the thought of flipping a coin, and wearing his jersey, and even eating particular snacks his wife makes to better his odds of winning. His uncontrollable betting and engagement in compulsive rituals stood out to me while viewing these particular scenes in the film. These behaviors are suggestive of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a disorder in which and individual demands perfectionism, has a tendency to be interpersonally controlling, and pays devotion to detailing. All of these symptoms explained Pat’s father’s behaviors in this film. Tiffany on the other hand, displays many different behaviors including depression through grief, acting out through promiscuous sexual behavior, inappropriate social behavior, moody, anxiety prone. She bluntly asking Pat to join her inside, which the audience is all well aware of her intentions. She also was very inappropriate during the friendly dinner, where she began insulting her sister and everyone at the table. She admits to being prescribed Xanax. This drug is used to treat anxiety disorders. All of these behaviors, including the prescription drug, is proof that she has most likely been diagnosed with a disorder in her past, that the film did not announce. My assumptions include her possibly fitting the criteria for Major
There is no one to listen to her or care for her ‘personal’ opinions. Her husband cares for her, in a doctor’s fashion, but her doesn’t listen to her (Rao, 39). Dealing with a mentally ill patient can be difficult, however, it’s extremely inappropriate for her husband to be her doctor when he has a much larger job to fulfill. He solely treats his wife as a patient telling her only what could benefit her mental sickness rather than providing her with the companionship and support she desperately needs. If her husband would have communicated with her on a personal level, her insanity episode could have been prevented. Instead of telling her everything she needed he should’ve been there to listen and hear her out. Instead she had to seek an alternate audience, being her journal in which he then forbids her to do. All of this leads to the woman having nobody to speak or express emotion to. All of her deep and insane thoughts now fluttered through her head like bats in the Crystal Cave.
“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” was a groundbreaking movie, when it was first released in 1975. It challenged the general concept of mental health and abnormality in the United States. Its influence emboldened people form every aspect of the society to pay attention to Mental Health Institutions in the U.S. Today, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is still accepted as one of the most influential and significant movies in the world. Moreover, the movie was able to question the general stigma over the mental disorders successfully because it portrayed both mentally ill and healthy people in the same scenery, while establishing a fluid dynamic between its characters. Their dynamic relationships helped the audience to understand the nature of mental illnesses better. Many people got to chance to see how normal insane people can be, and how far sane people can go on the scale of abnormality. Overall, the movie centered itself around the idea of abnormality and how it relates to mental health. It highlighted some common misconceptions among the mental health field by showing how deviant
1. What type of emotional disturbance does John Nash, the main character in the film,
Mental health and its disorders are an intricate part of the individual and society. Mental health incorporates our emotional, psychological and social well-being. Understanding human behavior and the social environment in conjunction with biological, social and cultural factors helps in diagnosing and treating individuals accurately. Film can be used to understand and visualize how mental disorders may affect one’s life. This paper examines the film “Primal Fear” and explores the character Aaron Stampler and his mental illness, reviews literature on the diagnosis given and critically analyzes the film’s portrayal of the disorder.
After noticing Pat’s uncontrollable anger and mood swings, he was diagnosed to be bipolar. Upon being released from the hospital, Pat was very compulsive and persistent in reaching out to his wife. Throughout this movie we saw him go from extreme euphoria to being ballistic. For example, One night Pat could not find his wedding video and his anger went through the roof, which left the house torn apart and his parents hurt. He also had a trigger that regularly set him off making him rash and angry. He walked in on his wife cheating on him while their wedding song was on, so every time he hears the song he lashes out. Although it is normal for something like this to affect someone strongly, Pat’s emotional outbursts were scarily difficult to be handled and
Anxiety: “Now I am wearing this smile I do not believe in! Inside, I feel like screaming!”