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Homeland: Carrie Mathison
Homeland is a television series on Showtime that is a political thriller about the Central Intelligence Agency and their involvement in the destruction of a man named Abu Nazir. The show takes place in Langley, Virginia and mainly involves a CIA agent named Carrie Mathison, her coworker Saul Berenson, her boss David Estes and a Marine, sergeant Nicholas Brody. Nicholas Brody is a marine that was held captive for 8years in al-queda by Abu Nazir. The CIA’s counterterrorism division is interested on what happened when agent Brody was held captive. Carrie becomes obsessed with uncovering the secrets that agent Brody knows about Abu Nazir. Her obsession with Brody and Abu Nazir puts her in a position where she is in harm’s way just to get answers. This dangerous behavior may be caused by the fact that she suffers from bipolar I disorder.
As an agent Carrie Mathison suffers with a secret of her own. Carrie suffers from bipolar I disorder and struggles with this secret because she cannot be a CIA agent with this disorder. No one knows that she has this, they see that she is suffering but they do not know why. She hides her pills in a Tylenol bottle so when she takes them, …show more content…

She as extreme manic episodes that don’t last as long as the criteria for DSM-5 diagnosis says it should but because she has had this disorder since she was I college it is still seen as a sign of bipolar. Homeland portrays the bipolar disorder just as it is described in many literatures. The behaviors are noticeable, the symptoms are spot on and when Carrie is on her medications her disorder is well controlled. Bipolar I is well represented in Homeland. The only thing that was not mentioned a lot in Homeland is how Carrie was treating her bipolar disorder. She was on medications but which ones were not made known and neither was how well the ECT worked for

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