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.
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.
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
This film, directed by David O. Russell, takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where former teacher Pat Solitano Jr. (Bradley Cooper) is released after 8 months of hospitalization by his mother Delores (2012). Due to living with bipolar disorder with mood swings, Pat has anger outburst if not managed properly. After finding his wife cheating and after brutally beating the man with her, Pat was committed where he was closely watched and given treatment such as medication (that could be spit out easily). With the court’s
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.
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.
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
Although it is normal for something like this to affect someone strongly, Pat’s emotional outbursts were scarily difficult to handle and understand. 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.
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.
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
In the movie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower the audience learns a great deal about, Charlie, the main character’s life and how his past traumas affect him psychologically (Chbosky, 2012). Charlie is a 15-year-old boy who is coping with his best friend’s suicide, in addition to struggling with Posttraumic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Chbosky, 2012). When Charlie was younger, his favorite Aunt, Helen, raped him, although he did not seem to fully understand that until he was hospitalized (Chbosky, 2012). However, Charlie was not hospitalized until right after he learned his best friend, Michael, committed suicide. Charlie is also shy, therefore has difficulties making friends. At the beginning of the movie, Charlie is writing to a new friend and
Silver Lining Playbook is a movie about Pat Solitano, a man who suffers from Undiagnosed Bipolar Disorder. After having spent 8 months in a mental institution following a violent act involving his wife and another man, Pat is released into his parent’s care. He wants to reconcile with his wife, but along the way meets Tiffany, a woman that is willing to help Pat find his wife. After a lot of efforts and significant lifestyle changes, Pat is able to put the past behind him and control his illness.
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.
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
People with schizophrenia are inaccurately portrayed in the offensive and stigmatizing film Me, Myself & Irene. The only way to prevent the stigma associated with these films is to get involved. Watch your own attitudes and behaviors and educate yourself and others as much as you can. Comedy and fantasy have their place in film but not at the expense of children and adults who struggle daily to overcome mental illness. A comedy that similarly made fun of cancer or AIDS would never be tolerated. The entertainment industry must learn that this exploitation of mental illness is unacceptable. Unfortunately, the entertainment industry continues to present people with mental illness in a negative light. They have wide ranging consequences for the lives of those with mental illness and for the ways people act towards others with psychiatric disorders.
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