Silver Linings Playbook Psychology

People experience many sorts of losses in their lives. Some may go through a nasty divorce from a person they love or the tragic death of a loved one they may feel at fault for. In the movie Silver Linings Playbook two characters experience just that, while at the same time dealing with personality disorders. Pat walked in on his wife who is having an affair, in the shower with the history teacher. After witnessing this he has a manic episode and nearly beat’s his wife’s lover to death. He is then sent to a mental institution .Tiffany struggles with the loss of her husband from a senseless car accident. Things take a turn when he meets Tiffany, at a friends dinner. There they connect through a conversation about different prescription drugs they are or have taken. Throughout the movie both characters deal with the loss of loved ones, cope with their losses in different ways, and help each other

This loss also causes him to constantly have flashbacks whenever he hears a certain song that reminds him of that fateful day. Many people deal with the death of a loved one differently. In the case of Tiffany, she is dealing with the major loss of her husband who was killed in a car accident. Apart from dealing with the death of her husband, she later gets fired because she ends up sleeping with everyone in her office. Often with loss those people find ways to cope. Coping can come in many forms, though they are not always good ways. One of the first ways Pat dealt with the loss was by losing weight and reading books that his estranged wife taught kids at her school, assuming that he would get his wife back. Only to find out later that he still has a restraining order against him to stay away from his ex wife. Pat has trouble accepting that he is no longer with his wife. One of the ways she copes with the tremendous lost and unnamed condition is by sleeping with strangers whenever she becomes