`` Next Up Normal `` : A Family Struggling With The Ups And Downs Of Surviving A Mental Illness

This movie is about institutionalized girls who are receiving treatments for multiple mental health disorders. Claymore Psychiatric Hospital is in Belmont, Massachusetts, this movie is based on a true story. Daisy Randone, Susanna Kaysen, and Lisa are the three main characters in this movie. Mrs. Randone’s is hospitalized for depression and bulimia nervosa disorder. The way this movie portrays numerous mental health disorders is excellent. A variety of clients from different cultural and diversities are being treated at Claymore. It is an awesome movie, the way the patients’ act out the personalities and disorders gives an excellent understanding of the disorders. Susanna is being treated for depression, and borderline personality disorder. While, Lisa is a sociopath and isn’t very complaint with treatment regimens and has been in and out of the facility several times. While Susanna attempts suicide by chugging a bottle of vodka with at least twenty – five aspirin and is unsuccessful, Daisy sadly ends up hanging herself from harsh words and manipulative, provoking from Lisa. She is successful in her attempt by hanging and the day of her death is on her birthday.

As a result, the narrator 's lack of understanding creates a barrier in his relationship with his brother, because even though the narrator has witnessed music within his community and has seen how it can be used as a form of expression, he does not yet realize the connections that he has with music and other artists within the community.

She wants to be recognized as a doctor by virtually everybody, and she does not care about the essence of every visitation. The play uses a number of characters who have different emotional and intelligence orientations to make the protagonist, Vivian, realise that she has a negative character and gives her an emotional role model in Susie.

“That’s why they were only taking a few things at a time; they weren 't really coming for ivory and paintings. They wanted me!” Even when she wasn’t in her room she was always afraid of something. “I always dreaded that my parents would divorce. It was my third biggest fear, right next to the fear that one of them would get abducted by heartmen on the road to Sugar Beach, or my first fear, that I would get sucked into the lagoon by neegee.” Out of all three fears only one seemed to happen. Her parents relationship finally came to an end after a lot of fighting, disagreement, and cheating. “Daddy, I hold your foot, don’t leave us. Daddy, please, I beg you” she cried that day. From then on, except the servants and cook, “it was only women at Sugar Beach.” Even after dealing with something so hard in her life that wasn’t even what affected her the most.

It is in human nature to aspire, to dream, or to wake up everyday with a goal, life is about much more than just ‘getting by’. A successful civilization needs much more than just food and shelter, people need art, music, and motivation. The award winning novel written by Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, goes by the motto “survival is insufficient”. The Traveling Symphony in this novel abides by this motto. The Georgia Flu becomes an epidemic and wipes out majority of civilization. To the Traveling Symphony, “life is insufficient”, means life with basic survival means is not enough. Throughout the novel, people strive to find the desire to find meaning in their life.

The character openly feels empathy for his daughter, and near the middle of the piece the character seems to feel helpless as he describes the way his daughter “seemed to crave a companion, or an activity that would lift her spirits.” He soon discovers musical therapy as that exact activity and it gives him a feeling of hope. He has a way now to open a channel where she can express herself through music “in a way that she cannot express-has never been able to express-in

The role of music is important in the short story “Sonny’s Blue”, by James Baldwin. Sonny is the narrator younger brother and he has a dream of become Musician. When their parents passed away, the narrator felt like he is responsible for his younger brother and taking care of him. The narrator was a teacher and living a stable life. When the narrator was going home, he noticed that one of Sonny’s old friend, who is always dirty and high, was waiting for him in the school. But the narrator pretended like he hates Sonny’s friend who despite his problem. Also, he told the narrator how Sonny’s life was drug addicted and will be continuing like this. Sonny was arrested for selling and using heroin and the narrator was really angry about it. As

The narrator feels the pain of his own past while listening. He comes to understand not only the beauty of jazz, but also the inner

Humanity disagrees about tradition, religion, party choice, and almost everything that people could agree or disagree with, but music has the power to put aside all those differences and bring people together. The Road by Cormac McCarthy takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where everything including the sweet sounds of music is gone. No matter the time or the place, music has an effect on every living human being. Whether it’s the first time hearing music or listening and bonding with friends over the new top song, music is what people can always rely on to create endless sounds of joy. The people in this book have a feeling of emptiness and silence in which now they forget what those beautiful sounds are like.

What happened, Nina Simone by Liz Garbus illustrates the life of Eunice Kathleen Waymon, a musical child prodigy who journeys through the life of being an entertainer in the music industry. Garbus argues how fame can negatively affect an entertainer’s behavior and can cause depression and anger. The evidence Liz Garbus uses to support his argument is seen in pictures of Nina Simone’s journal entries and in the interview from her daughter, Lisa Simone. Nina’s journal entries were full of depressed, suicidal thoughts at the time she fell into the limelight during the Civil Rights movement. As her songs from that time period sparked controversy, she became depressed as she sang about the oppression of African-Americans while still trying to maintain her career as an artist.

Next to Normal is a story about four men and two women. It mainly revolves around mother Diana who struggles with her bipolar disorder which worsens and the effects it has on her family. The story also shows the issues about suicide, drug abuse, grief and other everyday issues.

Characters Joss Byrd is the protagonist of the story, she is a young actor that is just trying to survive, she is expected to live up to her mother's expectations, has to deal with her crush on her movie brother and has to hide one of her biggest secrets. Her secret is is that she is dyslexic, that secret could end her whole acting career and is hard enough to manage by itself. Through it all Joss pulls through happy and never gives up. Viva is Joss’s mother that is the main antagonist. Viva wants Joss to become successful and is willing to do whatever it takes even if Joss doesn’t want to.

Music is important to life even if you don't understand it’s significance. In McCuller’s novel, the youngest of the main characters, Mick Kelly, aspires to learn how to compose and perform music, unfortunately she is incapable because of her family’s financial situation. Additionally, the owner of the New York Cafe, Biff Brannon, seems to remember information about his past after he listens to music.

A child decides how to behave based on the observations they make of their parents actions. Both plays do a brilliant job of showing that a child will follow their parents lead when grown up. Maureen grew up in an abusive environment and this causes her to have outbursts of abuse, both verbally and physically. Since Mag claims to be unable to get her own Complan nutritional drinks and porridge because of her bad back, Maureen ends up doing everything for her. She tends to treat

In this scene, Nina is the main focus. With her mother Erica in the background throughout, no matter if you can see her or not. Her voice and non- diegetic music is added to show how her mother embodies Nina. With the use of sound as Erica pushes on the locked door, there is light music that would put you to sleep. This calms the audience to portray that Erica is a caring, loving mother. When Nina’s mother becomes more invasive towards Nina the musical background intensifies. This also intensifies when Nina traps herself. The director uses non- diegetic music to identify when Nina is trapped physically and more importantly mentally. She confines herself away from her mother and mental illness. Nina’s reaction to her mother is the usual response to help and personal mental health “go away.” This demonstrates Darren Aronofsky 's way he wanted to depict women to mental health and relationships. The audience is able to grasp on mental health that is not being supported. Which consequently portray how relationships need to fight for help with individuals that have mental health issues. Darren Aronofsky represent women in a way that women in society react to their mental health and chose not to get help. He shows how people outside react to the characters mental health from an inside perspective. From the non-diegetic music, we are able to communicate the levels of mental health and how two