Mental Illness In Looking For Alaska

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Psychology tends to have a medicalized textbook view of mental disorders that make mental disorders seem rather two dimensional. Art brings the concept of mental illness to life; portrayals of mental illness in films, books, poems, and songs explain mental illness on a more personal level that humanized the experience of those dealing with mental illnesses. Looking for Alaska, a book with a character who struggles with a mental issues by John Green shows how mental illness affects people around her. The protagonist of the novel is friends with Alaska who appears to show the symptoms of bipolar disorder, having episodes of manic and depression periodically thought out the story. Although the book never confirms that Alaska was bipolar, how