Mental Illness In Amy Bloom's Rose

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You may think mental illness is something small and only “weird” people have it. Yet statistics say that one in four families in America have a family member affected with mental illness. In a story written by Amy Bloom, she takes you right into what it would be like to live in the life of a family where one of your closer relatives has a mental illness. One of the protagonist in the story, Rose, has Schizophrenia and this causes her to act out in a disruptive behavior a lot. Amy Bloom uses the way Rose reacts towards her superiors to show that not everything is meant to be taken seriously. The majority of people with a mental disorder have to see a therapist and Rose is no exception. Since Rose is a Schizophrenic, she was always seeing different therapist. In one her most horrendous encounters with a therapist, Mr. Walker, she beings massage her breast and calling him a ferret to which the rest of the family inevitable laughs at. After about 14 minutes of trying to deal with the troublesome family, Mr. Walker ends up walking out. This ended up making the family only laugh more, “After fourteen minutes, Mr. Walker decided that our time was up and walked out. Leaving us grinning at each other. Rose was …show more content…

Her mother had been there with since birth and stuck with Rose through all the breakdowns and hard times. On a particularly bad break down, Rose started chanting, “Please don't wear red tonight, oh, oh, please don’t wear tonight, for red is the color-’Okay, okay, Rose. It’s Okay. I'll go upstairs with you and you can get ready for bed.” (4) In this section of the story, Rose’s mother de-escalate the actions of Rose instead of losing it with her. With this Rose’s mother took the matter as a everyday thing and helped not make it more troublesome than needed be. This relates back to the main point that not everything needs to be taken seriously and to not over-react on certain

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