Why most movies about mental illness are terrible

Thank you for the video. At first, I felt like maybe it was going to be an unnecessary complaint like most social justice complaints are. However, I was delighted to see that it was wonderfully handled and articulated. It felt like a thesis statement for a PhD. Bravo. I will be describing and looking in the comment section for some movies that others feel handled mental health well.

How do you think about the movie One flew over the cuckoo's nest?

As someone with bipolar whose depressions are accompanied with hallucinations, one of the best representations I thougut was Kandis (in the books). Being in her head the entire time, there was a lot of me going. Hey yeah, this is more like what I go through then any media I've consumed. Then the movies ruined it. They lost the point of telling a broken girl's story, and instead focused on all the cool shots the games gave them.

Great video! I think Christopher Nolan's films "The Prestige" and "Memento" are two excellent, albeit non-linear displays of how mental illnesses can be properly or at least somewhat decently portrayed in media in a way that is both realistic and a bit haunting. Without spoilers for those who may have not seen it, I believe one of the main characters in "The Prestige" may have narcissistic disorder among others and the other main character definitely shows signs of dependency. Whereas in "Memento", it's a non-linear journey of how menacing (yes, menacing but it is handled somewhat tenderly, ironically) and equally tenderly of having C-PTSD. Of course, there are many, many, many elements in both of these films that complicate this comment. But I think these movies are at least decent visual representations of some of what mental disorders can look like, taken to extremes, in my opinion. Sorry for the essay (lol). I hope whoever reads this has a great time of day, if you made it this far. 🙂

Fatal Attraction, in my opinion, has done major damage to society's view about women, especially women with borderline personality disorder or borderline traits, even though there is no mention of BPD or any other mental diagnosis in the movie. To this day I'm still seeing ugly comments like "Women with BPD are bunny boilers!" On popular BPD video comment sections, Fatal Attraction comparisons come up regularly. When I did a little research into that movie, I've read that many mental health professionals say the star's symptoms in the movie more closely line up with erotomania. That movie is very misogynistic also. It depicts the unfaithful husband as some kind of hero for killing the mentally ill woman in the end. How depressing that so many people think that was such a great movie.

im so happy that bojack horseman and crazy ex girlfriend exist. they arent movies, and theyre amazing.

Easier enough what to improve myself completely

Inside out is one of the only movies I know that actually present depression a mental health issues properly

So some movies suck because they try to be better movies?

As raunchy as it is, to me, South Park's "Feeling old yet" & "Assburgers" are 100% the perfect depiction of depression. Simply said: to Stan, everything turns to shit. Literally. His favorite music turns to fart noises, his favorite food turns to turds, actors he likes are replaced by talking poop etc. At a certain point, he doesn't feel compelled to do anything anymore and turns into a bitter person nobody wants to hang out with. Nothing actually changed in the world, but merely how he perceives it. If everything is shit, doing anything feels pointless.

It made for a compelling plot and it didn't even have a happy ending. Stan became an alcoholic, since alcohol is the only thing that temporarily removes the shit, and they never bring it up again.

I just heard another ghost out there in his skin announce me Satan and antichrist talk about pray for the Lord to keep us from killing our abusers, false accusers forgive us of our abuse we took as some impact negatives to cause some ourselves. But the sun and Galaxy couldn't speak for itself before killing everyone dead. Nor could volcanics and fault lines . Marshal law from smart Implanted beans in the back of our baby's heads spooked me come see saw. I was born in 73 damage to left brain after right forehead to eyebrow. Chems from etc.. all for build up Hellheaven . No matter how many times we redefine reshape perfect unity it gets struck. By God somehow somewhere. Knocked while straight n narrow and confused while they say Satan is the author of confusion but the truth is brain trauma and chems are . The truth is
Its not with intake that defiles a person it's the words spoken or actions as against wrongful . So we not to many sins to cause . But one must be busy within self control if inarticulate kept struggling to remember within and not quick in thoughts as sure as knife is at our own throats we can add others to stab us in the back deeper because they thought something with another right or wrong without thorough investigations. Only investigating a beat tormented brain. Made them them think I was guilty of crap. They were alcoholics. Me something else. I never knew why I felt torment in my brain until I remembered the rats in my crib pin worms born with clubbed feet in a inarticulate disabled family setting poisoned accidentally by adult family . Then as an adult by others terrorist family married in Ian's girlfriends corporate . I never knew exactly why . I found I had a lying spirit . That never added up to the works of my hands . I felt so much pain left side of my brain as if it were lit on fire doused in rubbing alcohol after stabbed with an knife. Unbearable so I bleed out wrongly to spiritual mental interrupting pesky others out there. I slept most of my life away bad grades couldn't hold my head up in school . Being switched by tree branches and belts as punishment not able to hear my grandfather grandmother listen up good as young child. Been hurt further overly by others. Not speaking much bleeding out the back of my head with our reality or realization of it .
Self unawareness disassociation I guess somewhat. My mother used a dang skating ring to baby sit me. Darn got addicted to pain n sleep. Through teen years . Only trophy's to show for it dust catchers. Stardust skating rink . My mom car accident . I guess my father dumped her after that. Her looks attitude changed . He must of sucked to much jet fuel in the Airforce anyway.

What about "American psyco"?

Multiple personalities, bipolar, manic depression. You name it, Hollywood serves it up on a silver platter. Stay as far away from the fame game as you can get. Those places are where the true snakes hide and wait. There is nobody or thing to be me and I am not bound by the illusions of humanity. Yikes 😮

I thought Beautiful Mind was a accurate portrait of schizophrenia
and another film Mr Jones was also
a good picture of someone who
suffers from bipolar disorder

Just saying:
You don't need to think inside the box to create a compelling narrative.
Creative writing is an art form that requires no rigid adherence to a specific structure.
Creative writing is about freedom – the freedom to invent worlds beyond your wildest dreams. The freedom to express yourself – your thoughts, your experiences, your feelings and views. The freedom bring your vision to life.
But please, please, PLEASE learn to treat the serious themes (like mental health, trauma, etc.) in your stories with the upmost respect.
These stories don't fail because mental illness is too disorganized and thus unappealing. There ARE stories with compelling and eye-opening depictions of mental health that could keep you hooked for days, even long after you finish that experience. There ARE stories with unorthodox and complex styles of storytelling that are both griping and evocative.
No, no – these stories fail because they don't treat these themes with the proper respect and delicacy they often require and deserve. They receive backlash – not because of the story structure, but because of their handling and poor representation of these delicate subjects.
Please, please, to anyone who wants to tell a story, don't let yourself be disheartened. Tell that story and tell it well. And if at first you don't succeed, that's okay. You'll get better with time, just like any other artist.

You got this <3

Autism is NOT a mental illness, it’s a neurodevelpmental disability

I was very disappointed in The Joker movie for this reason.
I appreciated the attempt to layer the character and show their struggle, but it was ultimately used to "justify" violence.
The stigma continues.

There might be a successful formula for depicting an in depth and accurate look at mental illness. I've got a few issues, but the one where I could really see it work is OCD, particularly "germaphobia." I often have to stop and plan how I am going to work around the gross or heal the "contamination" that comes from wading straight in. It doesn't stop me from responding in an emergency, it doesn't cause me to have outbursts, but I'm going to have to wash SO MUCH.

So, I could never be the protagonist, I only get better when I'm less stressed, wjich is the oppositeof a plot. The protagonist would have to have their story arc and carry the adventure while learning that their germaphobe-second-banana can't be logiced but that they can help them be "more functional."

For me, being more functional usually involves people actually doing the very few things I ask them to, and not helping when it just means I'll have to redo it. You can put the dirty laundry in the washer for me but Don't touch the clean stuff. Not a very heroic example, but part of the heroes journey would be getting the idea that it's not scalable and it's not logical. I know all doorknobs are equally disgusting all the time but I only care when I just washed my hands.

Of course the movie ends with the germaphobe doing something disgusting while having hesitated to consider that it does majorly upset the OCD and then act like a totally nornal person for the remainder of the climax: the hero thinks they're cured! And then the germaphobe hurls themselves into shower when they get home to have a proper scrubby-dubby freakout. The hero is left to conclude that they did save the day hut that they cannot save the germaphobe from OCD. But they can wash tgeir handsato get them a clean towel without needing to be asked.

The movie wouldn't about OCD. It could be superheroes, or war, or teachers, or sports. OCD is the C or D plot. And the purpose of that plot is that it's a big deal me to be a germaphobe, it's not a hig deal for you that I'm a germaphobe.

Thank you. Very much.

Has anyone ever wondered whether half of the sufferers were gang stalked and tortured to a ruined life?

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