Abnormal Behavior
Mental illnesses are common amongst people who have experienced trauma in their earlier years of life and have not developed certain life skills or have been through traumatic experiences through life. It affects the ways a person lives and communicates with others and it also separates them from reality. People can be harmful to others and harmful to themselves. All illnesses are different and are different for all individuals. The movie The Voices depicts a man with a psychotic disorder that affects his relationships with other.
In the movie, The Voices, Jerry (the main character) seems like a friendly and happy guy. He functions normally until we see a scene where he is having a conversation with his pets. He lives with
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He displayed all the symptoms his mother did. The only difference was his killing spree that he had. The onset of this affection towards killing and decapitating came from the night when his mom told him to cut her throat so that she would not be taken by the mental institution. From this point forward, Jerry felt a thrill or fulfillment feeling when he killed the other women. Throughout the film, the audience could be confused between the different psychotic illnesses. The main illness that arose was schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is described as a person who has a split mind that may have delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, and/or negative symptoms (Kearney & Trull, 2012). Furthermore, his symptoms were persistent. Without medication or help, he lived his life in delusions and hallucinations. Unfortunately, Jerry did not have much help throughout his life. His psychiatrist did not set any goals or futures for him and also only told him to take his …show more content…
From the film, I could see that he was experiencing emotional problems, such as depression, and did not know how to express them properly. He believed that everything he had done was insufficient and through murdering someone else, he felt unrealistic pleasure. Cognitive-behavioral therapy can help in the way Jerry may perceive the world. The experiment conducted by Steel et al. (2015) can help adjust the way Jerry may think and positive outlooks can be engrained into his thought process. Manipulation may not be the answer, but with people who are experience strong symptoms and uncontrollable urges, manipulation may be the one thing that can treat the problem. The psychodynamic portion comes into play because he was abused as a child and learned from his mother that when people are hurt, you put them out of their misery. The movie may not have portrayed a just one psychotic illness, but we can see that it was rooted in his childhood. Once the past is resolved, I believe Jerry could live a healthier and steady life. There may not be only one type of treatment to mentally ill people. Different treatments work differently in every
Ken Kesey's award-winning novel, "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", was adapted into a film in 1975 written and directed by New York City native Bo Goldman and Czech director Milos Forman. Towards the end of the novel and film, Chief Bromden escapes from the ward. This scene is conveyed differently in the novel and film; however, there are evident similarities between each form of media. This scene is important to the plot because it wraps up the entire storyline. In the film and novel, similarities within Chief Bromden’s escape from the ward include the way Chief escaped, how he couldn't hear anyone in the ward due to being deaf, and how McMurphy assisted Bromden with gaining his confidence to lift the panel and throw it through the window. McMurphy essentially changed Bromden to help him break out of the asylum and back into the real world.
He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, but some thought he might actually be suffering from drug-induced toxic psychosis. He visited the emergency room for testimonials that bones were coming out the back of his head, someone stole his pulmonary arteries, his stomach was backwards, and his heart stopped beating sometimes. He was also diagnosed with hypochondria, where he believed his heart was in danger of shrinking until disappearance. He then came to the solution that drinking blood of animals or humans would stop the shrinking. He was also interviewed and said that he killed to stay alive. He was admitted to a mental institution and was prescribed antidepressants. He was allowed to leave anytime he wanted. He was left unsupervised and his mother told him that he did not need the
There are many types of mental illnesses that can affect a person’s ability to function on a level fit for society. Those illnesses affect people differently and to different extremes. Diagnosable mental disorders are changes in thinking, moods, or behaviors that can cause a rise in the risk of death and may cause distress, pain, or disability. More severe mental illnesses include three major illnesses: Schizophrenia, major depression, and manic depression. Schizophrenia is a brain ailment that causes a loss in the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy. Many people who suffer from schizophrenia often hear voices that tell them to do different things. In some cases, the voices tell them to hurt themselves or other people. Other symptoms ma...
It's not a film where a girl somehow walks out of the television screen and calls to tell you that you are going to die in seven days. It is a film that holds some realistic sense to it. Murderers are as real as anything can be. The reality that is witnessed within the screen when watching psycho is what truly makes it scary. Checking into an isolated hotel in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere, where the only people there are an odd man and his creepy mother seems like a total nightmare and coincidentally realistic. Mental illness plays an important role in Psycho. Norman was mentally ill, which is what made him commit all the crimes he did. "Psycho" along with many other films, portrays mental illness in what we can see is a negative light. A man who is mentally ill keeps his mother's body preserved through his previous knowledge of taxidermy, and from there he kills a good number of people, when the 'mother' part of him comes out. From the way things play out for Norman Bates, we can assume that he is schizophrenic and suffers from a bad personality disorder. Simply by knowing this, we see how negatively mental illness is depicted, especially for people who actually have these mental illnesses, the vast majority do not turn out to be psychotic killers. People with mental illnesses do not want to be viewed as crazy, they truly are not.
People are constantly bombarded with negative images of people with mental illness. In movies especially this is seen. Most horror movies are centered around a character with mental illness who goes unnoticed and performs horrible crimes because of their illness. People who are portrayed as being depressed, anxious, or compulsive in media are usually seen in a negative way, whereas the characters who are carefree and have no emotional problems are seen in a more positive way. Media is significantly adding to the stigma of mental health.
Mental illness can be a mixture of different factors. You can get mental illness through genetics meaning that it is passed down within the family. That can only happen if the mental illness is heredity. Another factor of mental illness is psychological trauma. Psychological trauma like abuse, or loss can cause some mental illnesses. When mental illness is untreated it makes it difficult for the person to function in society and deal with everyday life. The different types of mental illnesses range from anxiety disorders to personality disorders. Other mental illnesses are mood disorders, eating disorders, psychotic disorders, and impulse control and addiction disorders. An example psychotic disorder schizophrenia. Examples of eating disorders are bulimia and anorexia. According to MedicineNet.com “Most mental illnesses are caused by a combination of factors and cannot be prevented”. Mental illness is something that should not be avoided. The biggest issue when it comes to mental illness that is noticeable is when someone who has a mental il...
Mental illness is a significant disease that plenty of people deal with today. The musical next to normal written by Brian Yorkey is about a family who manages a crisis trying to get their family the closest thing back to normal, if not normal. There are many themes present in the musical. Of those themes present, the theme that I found most interesting is mental illness. Mental illness is a broad range of conditions that affects the mood, thinking, and behavior of a person. Throughout the musical we experience the negative affects of what it is like for a family to live and deal with a parent and a wife that suffers from a mental illness. By looking through the lens of the characters in next to normal we can develop and understand why they
For this assignment, the movie “The Help” was chosen to review and analyze because it presents a story of fighting injustice through diverse ways. The three main characters of the movie are Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a young white woman, Aibileen Clark, and Minny Jackson, two colored maids. Throughout the story, we follow these three women as they are brought together to record colored maids’ stories about their experiences working for the white families of Jackson. The movie explores the social inequalities such as racism and segregation between African Americans and whites during the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi.
Mental illness can be a curse if it happens to you or anyone that you know and in The Soloist Nathaniel was one of the people to get a mental illness. Nathaniel Ayers is one of the many people to get a mental illness and it affected him in many way like being homeless and ruin his possible career in music. In The Soloist Steve Lopez said, “Mental illness doesn 't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young
Mental illnesses are any psychiatric disorder that causes unusual behavior. Some examples of these include depression, anxiety, or schizophrenia. People affected by mental illnesses often do not get the help they need in order to be better. Many things cause cause a mental
It tells the story of a person, family and community in which individuals suffer from mental disorders much the same way as people do in the real world. Not only did I find this movie quite accurate concerning mental illness but I also established some important messages concerning mental illness in today’s society. The film takes into account that mental illness is a part of society and overall has a positive outlook on it. Their illnesses don 't define their identities nor are they even the main point of the story. In coming together, the characters find the mutual support that enables them to approach their struggles and redirect their lives in a more positive direction. To some degree, this film addresses stigma and the fact that persons with mental illness should be allowed to participate in society over being kept in a hospital, in other words, it gives
When people think about mental illness they think about people with mental voices or psychopathic killers like Michael Myers from the movie Halloween , but not all mental illnesses or disorders are so not visible or easily distinguished. Psychological disorders can vary from as minor as drinking problems to as severe as depression and anxiety. Though all mental illnesses are severe and harmful in many ways psychiatrist and doctors still are yet to find permanent cures. There is research linked to genes, hormone problems, brain development, and environment that trigger mental disorders but no research yet indicates the true cause.
In the movie, they alluded to Jerry’s mother having heard voices as well, or as she called them, “angels”. We can see that maybe Jerry’s cause of schizophrenia was more genetically related. Research has shown that there is not one gene that is responsible for schizophrenia but rather different genetic combinations produce greater susceptibility. Family studies were also conducted in Berlin in 1938 (which is a coincidence because Jerry’s family came from Berlin) that showed parents with severe schizophrenia influenced the likelihood of their children developing it. It did not matter if there was a specific type of schizophrenia the parent was diagnosed with; the children were more susceptible to the general predisposition of
Most people gather what they know about mental illnesses from television and film. Unfortunately these media portrayals are inaccurate and create stigma. They depict people suffering from mental illnesses as different, dangerous and laughable. Characters are often addicted to drugs or alcohol, are violent, dangerous, or out of control. Horror film characters like Norman Bates in Psycho, Jack Torrance in the Shining, or Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs associate the typical 'psycho- killer' with people who suffer from a mental illness. But dramas and horror films are not the only film genres that create stigma. Comedies like What About Bob and many others not only stigmatize, they also make fun of mental illnesses and the people who suffer from them. This paper will discuss how the film Me, Myself & Irene is an inaccurate, offensive and stigmatizing portrayal of an individual suffering from schizophrenia. It also discusses what can be done to counteract the stigma created by these types of films.
In the past, mental illness was taboo to discuss and there was fear surrounding the topic. However, remarkable strides have been made in figuring out the causes of the disease and weighing the most effective treatments specialized for each specific disease. According to the American Psychotic Association, “A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. Just as diabetes is a disorder of the pancreas, mental illnesses are medical conditions that often result in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.”