He was then arrested and served 10 years in prison but was released for good behavior. After
Silver Linings Playbook is known for being a “Psycho- comedy” and a “crazy romantic comedy”. Starring Bradley Cooper, as Pat Solitano, who is a former teacher and recent divorcee. Bradley Cooper’s character is considered to be a unique character that suffers from a significant mental illness. In this film, there are a number of demonstrations of symptoms that are presented to justify and diagnose the individual’s mental illness. Also, this film portrays the difficulties that one goes through due to their measure of mental illness.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, talks about a dystopian world where books are not allowed. The author uses many literary devices to help give visual descriptions of this strange, technologically advanced world. A major issue that Bradbury tries to describe through the lives of each one of these characters is the technological advancements that can hurt the citizens' mental health. Technological restraints that are taken in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury describe how the technology of 2024 affects teens' mental health today. Ray Bradbury uses the lives, and worlds of Fahrenheit 451 to get people to understand the technology affecting the mental health of the people in this dystopian world, to the people of today.
In Jeremiah S. Chechik’s film, Benny and Joon Mary Matterson plays a mentally ill character by the name of Joon. Joon Suffers specifically from two psychological disorders knows as schizophrenia and asperger syndrome. Being Schizophrenic makes it hard for Joon to think, feel, and behave how a typical human being is expected to. In addition, Joon’s asperger syndrome enables her to socialize and communicate in an effective way. This film underlines both psychological disorders so that viewers can gain a better understanding of how these psychological disorders affect real-life individuals.
Frankie and Alice is a movie that was released in 2010 but didn’t receive widespread notice until 2014. Frankie Murdoch is an African American go-go dancer fighting against two alter egos: a seven-year-old child named Genius, and a southern, racist, white woman named Alice. Genius is seven years old, and, as her names suggests, she is a genius. She is nearsighted, and has an outstanding IQ of 156. She actually likes and cares for Frankie, but is afraid of the other alter ego, Alice.
Due to him being declared mentally incompetent, he was not able to take part in court and was sent to a mental hospital for ten years until he was able to participate in a trial. After trial, he was sent back to the mental institution where he spent the rest of his life. Antisocial personality disorder is difficult to treat and it depends on the case and severity of the patient. There is not currently a drug that has been approved to help treat this disorder, but there are medications to treat symptoms such as depression that are a result from of disorder. Therapy is the most common form of treatment for this disorder, but it is not always effective.
The disorders that Pat shows symptoms of include Bipolar, Schizophrenia, and dissociative identity disorder. In this paper I will discuss examples in the movie where Pat Solitano thinks and acts like he has these disorders. The first disorder I diagnosed Pat with is Bipolar although the movie never states exactly what Pat has this is probably the main disorder the character is supposed to relate with. Bipolar has states of mania, this is when the patient is super positive and is at the peak of the disorder. Pat shows mania within the first 10 minutes of the movie.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a unique, inspirational, and comically heart breaking novel. The person who recommended the book to me said that it changed her in many different ways. It was eye opening to the fact that many people have varying different mental illnesses that can affect the way they interact with people and live their day-to-day lives. In the book the main character Charlie has depression and PTSD. Having these disorders changed the way he interacted with his friends.
(H) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) affects 14 million Americans at sometime in their lives and left untreated can completely take over your life (NEA, 2013). In J.D Salinger’s masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye the main character Holden Caulfield suffers from this very disorder. (Thesis) The very reason Holden can’t keep or obtain a relationship is because of his Borderline Personality Disorder. (B1) Holden is constantly involved in impulsive and self destructive behavior as a result of BPD which prevents him from gaining and maintaining relationships.
In the last few years, the representation of people suffering from mental illness in popular culture has greatly increased, showing actual teenagers that characters and idols have real problems in everyday life. One of the literary leaders in this psychological revolution is the novel, and recent film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Throughout this story, the viewer learns about different types of mental disorders from depression, to post-traumatic stress disorder, to schizophrenia. The events that occur throughout this storyline show real-life situations and struggles that teenagers go through. Stephen Chbosky expertly handles the topic of mental illness in the novel and film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
The motion picture “The Aviator” is a biography based on the life of a man named Howard Hughes. Hughes was a very successful film director in the 1930s and also became a prominent figure in the aviation world. Howard had all the money and fame he could ever ask for but unfortunately, he was stricken with mental illness. In this paper I am going to explain what DSM-5 disorder I believe Howard had and what caused it, I will give examples to how the disorder affected his life, and I will attempt to propose a treatment that would have helped him.
The characters of many popular movies tend to have various mental and physical illnesses, but they are often romanticized and not portrayed correctly. In Silver Linings Playbook, both of the main characters have a mental illness and they are displayed fairly accurately. However, it is slightly romanticized and leaves the viewer with the impression that everything is okay after a kiss and that together, the main characters will both be much better with their illnesses. Silver Linings Playbook is about a man named Pat Solitano who has just returned from an eight month stint in a mental hospital and has been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. He was required by law to be treated in the mental hospital because he had previously almost beaten a man to death after discovering he had an affair with his wife, Nikki.
For this report, I chose the movie, Forrest Gump. Throughout the movie, Forrest showed many symptoms for many different disorders. I would now like to touch on a few of these. The first disorder I would diagnose Forrest with would be autism. The number of symptoms Forrest showed for this disorder were greater than those of others.
The presence of it in the main character of a popular film draws attention to the issue, and if anything, increases overall awareness of psychological disorders due to the staggering popularity of movies. The downside is that the way in which these disorders are portrayed in film often exaggerates them, and rarely shows any sort of treatment or resolve for the characters who have the disorders. This popular culture portrayal can make it seem as if there is no way to get help, when there are so many treatments that could benefit the individual. It should be more important to the film directors to include more references to treatment or to consequences should the disorder not go untreated. Additionally, the more realistic the portrayal of the disorder is, the more it can grab people’s attention.
The movie Shutter Island is overwhelmingly filled with themes of mental health. Before moving into the content of this paper I would like to disclose this movie contains a false and melodramatic portrayal of mental illness, this is not an accurate representation of the field. The movie begins with Federal Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner traveling to a secluded island containing a mental facility for the criminally insane. They are supposedly there to investigate a missing patient, however, throughout the movie we see clips with signs and symptoms that point to Teddy’s own diagnosis of a mental disorder. That maybe Teddy isn’t exactly on the island for an investigation but has his own hidden secrets to uncover.
