In the movie Silverlining Playbook, directed by David O. Russell, Patrick Solatano who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released from a mental institution and partners up with tiffany in the hopes to get back with his wife. In Perks of being a wallflower directed by Steven Chobsky, Charlie suffers from depression after his best friends suicide and PTSD due to being sexualy abused by his Aunt Karen at an early age. Both directors effectively depict these varying mental disorders in american society by accurately portraying the mental disorder symptoms, relating the conflicts to the audience, and by challenging previous negative stereotypes.
(need t/s) In silver linings playbook, Patrick is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which causes him to have manic episodes. For in the film Pat caught his wife in the midst of an affair and nearly beat the man to death and afterwards did not see any wrong in almost killing the man and was upset that the wife would not take him back and could not comprehend why she was afraid of him. Throughout the movie he displays more manic episodes like when he finished reading a book he threw the book out the window because he did not like the ending and then woke up his parents and started complaining about the book. Pat does not have any sense of responsibility for his actions. These manic only last for a couple of minutes and then he goes back to normal. Most people think that bipolar is being crazy and having violent episodes but pat has non violent manic episodes which is a common symptom of bipolar disorder. For it to be considered a manic episode the mood disturbance must be accompanied by at least three additional symptoms from a list that includes inflated self-esteem or grandiosity, decr...
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... is going to be alright its ok to seek help. These facilities are available to help these people get through the worst part of their illness by putting them with others alike and not taking them away from their families.
In Conclusion, people can live a normal life with mental disabilities thanks to various treatment options and support systems. A mental disability does not have to define who a person is, there many people leading successful lives with these disabilities and its is possible to prosper and live a healthy life. These movies help raise awareness by bringing the issues to a widespread audience and encouraging them to seek help. It also shows that mental illness does not have to derail their lives. These movies do an excellent job in advocating for those who have had to live with the stigmas that come along with being diagnosed with a mental illness.
In the film, American Psycho, Patrick Bateman was a wealthy investment banker who also happened to be a serial killer. He was highly intelligent and was charming which attracted many of the women who came his way. Unlike most people in the world, he lived in constant pain. He was rarely happy with himself, and also hated everyone around him. He felt that he needed to inflict his pain on others in violent ways. He always had something disgusting to say such as, “I like to dissect girls; I am utterly insane.” It is outside of the norm to speak in this way, therefore he would be considered deviant. He displayed feelings of distress as he became frustrated very easily with himself and others. Everything
Chapter thirteen has two subject matter that it discusses in some detail, mental illness and developmental disabilities. This review will be exploring the history, philosophy and theories of developmental disabilities. Social workers come in contact with many clients that have developmental disabilities, and the chapter gives a glimpse the history, problems, and theories related to developmental problems. Chapter thirteen explores the issues of dealing with developmental disabilities in the past and what is being done today to help social workers face the issues.
Patricia Bauer was a former Washington post reporter and one of the founders of the UCLA, a school for young adults with intellectual disabilities, although she gains most of her knowledge on the topic from raising a daughter with Down Syndrome. This article was originally published in The Washington Post, one of the most circulates newspapers in America. When this article came out in August of 2008, two major things were happening concerning mental disabled people. The first was a movie that came out
On the basis of the symptoms portrayed in the movie, I would assign Pat with the following DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition) diagnosis: 296.44 Bipolar 1 disorder, current or most recent episode manic, mild with mood-congruent psychotic features. I have not included major depressive disorder within the diagnosis because while there is one reference to depression when Pat mentions the effects of Trazodone - an antidepressant, there are no other references or observable symptoms of depression that prove Pat experienced depressive episodes.
Does the film educate or further stigmatize people with mental illness in its portrayal? How?
In Silver Lining Playbook, Pat exhibits manic episodes: periods of abnormally irritable mood. His symptoms are: decreased need for sleep, grandiosity, and pressured speech. According to the DSM-V criteria, we can confidently say that Pat suffers from manic episodes since he shows 3 of the symptoms. Even though the movie doesn’t explicitly show it, we can deduce he is also depressed. The combination of both allows us to come to the conclusion that Pat suffers from Bipolar Disorder. This diagnosis seems justified. If I was this person’s therapist, I would be confident and certain in the
In addition, movies are starting to add more people with disabilities as extras . This is encouraging for people with disabilities. Hopefully we start getting more lead roles about people with disabilities played by people disabilities. What does it show that when a person without a disability plays someone with a disability. Once that camera turns off they are no longer disabled. Having a disability is not something you can turn off and on. More recent movies have been good at modeling the life of an individual with a disability. It gives the audience a better feel of what people face and their experience with a disability. Although people with disabilities are not the ones playing the role, it is good that disabled roles are showing up more. Some roles are even inspired by people 's stories which gives it authenticity.
Oftentimes, the portrayal of mental illness in movies is skewed solely for cinematic purposes. However, careful examination of current evidence can better guide perceptions and accepted management of such illnesses. A focused comparison of schizophrenia as seen in evidence-based publications, current psychiatric care, and a motion picture film better reveals discrepancies and similarities in the representation of this illness.
Bipolar disorder is a condition in the brain which causes unusual mood swings from extremely high energy to very depressed. In the film Silver Linings Playbook, the main character Patrick suffers from bipolar I disorder. Bipolar disorder causes a person to act recklessly, exercise poor judgment, and show a lack of self-control. He was court ordered to me committed to a mental institution to avoid jail time. This traumatic situation with his marriage ending brought to life many issues that he has probably had for a long time. The individual with this mental illness, acting agitated and angry over small issues. His family history could indicate the trend for mental illness amongst the family. In the case of Patrick, he displayed violent
There is an umbrella of different mental disabilities that are not shown on television. Common disorders are usually depression, anxiety, and less often, bipolar disorder (Bastién 12). Even more common, when disorders such as schizophrenia, dissociative identity disorder, and antisocial personality disorder are portrayed on television, they tend to give off a negative connotation on mental disorders. Not all people with mental disorders are “idiosyncratic serial killers” like Hannibal or “grotesquely destructive characters” like Elliot on Mr. Robot (Bastién 13). If society is not developing a stigma of those with mental
Stupidity lingers in the minds of people who lack the audacity to achieve greater feats due to the pessimistic feelings that prevent them from accomplishing goals known by others as impossible. “Juicervose” brings the use of Disney characters towards the objective of almost curing a child’s inability to speak as he suffers from regressive autism. Ron, Cornelia, and Walter Suskind, the family of Owen learn about his connections to the music and personality of animated Disney roles with his understanding of the basis of the real world. Through rewinding The Little Mermaid to exactly one scene over and over again, the Suskinds’s realized the phrase ‘Juicervose’, the only term that Owen could mumble clearly, was alluding to the line “Just your voice” uttered by Ursula. Furthermore, Ron developed an
In the 1993 film “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, a young boy (Gilbert) has to care for his younger brother (Arnie) who suffers from mental retardation, while also caring for their obese mother. Arnie is very dependent on his brother who bathes him and keeps an eye on him at all times. Arnie’s symptoms are very clear throughout the film including communication, health, safety, self-care, and home living (Grohol, 2013). Taking care of a younger sibling on your own has to be hard enough without them having a mental disorder. Their mother who is obese has not left the house in years because of their father’s suicide by hanging himself. The whole town mocks their mother and it makes their life that much more difficult. Gilbert and his two sisters slave away their youth constantly cooking, cleaning, and watching over Arnie for their mother because she cannot because of her disability also. Caring for someone with a disability can be difficult but love and support is what they need the most and that is why I chose this movie and family to discuss. Although Gilbert sometimes gets distracted from watching and taking care of Arnie by things going on in his own life, he never complains about his role as a care giver for his younger brother with mental retardation.
For example, his wife cheating on him was by far one of the biggest impacts. Pat was always living a bipolar lifestyle, but he just self managed his condition, keeping his symptoms to a minimum. This incident escalated his condition, which pushed him to his breaking point. Another thing that could have affected the development of his mental illness was by him not taking his medication. Yes, there are some pretty bad side effects of most medications, but this was physician subscribed and he refused to take it. The medication could have subsided or in terms lessened the severity of his condition. Towards the end of the movie, we see Pat finally giving in to take his medication after many violent outbursts. One last thing that I feel could have escalated his condition was his father. In Pat’s family, he was always seen as the outcast and was not treated the same as others. His father says in the movie that he regrets not spending as much time with him as a kid and that he was trying to make up for it now. His father did not know how to handle Pat’s violent mood swings as a child and that itself lead to them having an unhealthy father-son relationship. One thing that I have learned throughout this chapter is how important family is in helping a person with a mental illness with guiding them through their process of recovery. There are many factors that can drive and worsen a mental disorder, but there
Forrest Gump is a movie that will be around for ages. It takes the complexes of multiple disabilities and puts them into one movie. The disabilities, or disorders, cover all three of the spectrums: emotional, mental and physical. The main character in the movie starts off with a physical and mental disability, but he ends up only living with his mental disability for the rest of his life. One of the most memorable quotes from this movie is “Stupid is as stupid does”. This quote is the premise of the movie in one short sentence.
In the movie Silver Linings Playbook, the protagonist, Pat has been released from a mental hospital. Pat is hospitalized after discovering his wife, Nicky, cheating with the high school history teacher, and almost beating him to death. During his hospital stay, Pat is diagnosed with Bipolar I disorder. Bipolar disorder is very difficult to diagnose, often times it is difficult to diagnose due to its similarities with other disorders (Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead, 2013, p. 364). Bipolar I order is a very debilitating mental disorder due to its symptomology and how much it negatively impacts the client’s ability to function. In the case of Pat, it is very clear that he meets the criteria for bipolar disorder I.