The Perceived Image Of Bipolar Disorder

One scene that displays this features Patrick and his friends comparing business cards. Patrick’s card is not the best, so he has a mental breakdown. In another scene, he kills his friend because his friend likes a different restaurant than Patrick does. Perhaps the most glaring example, however, is the scene where he brutally stabs a homeless man to death: first, he felt bad for the homeless and said he would help the him, but then when Patrick saw that the homeless man was absolutely pathetic by Patrick’s standards , Patrick proceeded to take out a knife and stab the homeless man to death.

He asks the secretary to turn it off, but she does not have the control to do so. Pat starts to get extremely upset and starts throwing objects aside to find the speaker. The song acts as a trigger for Pat’s mood to accelerate into rage. However, Pat refuses to take medication because he does not like the side effects, including a “foggy” mind. It is during this session that Pat discusses his father also has issues with rage, describing an incident in which his father got kicked out of a football stadium for beating up Eagles fans; Pat refers to his father as the “explosion guy”. While his father has not been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it seems probable that Pat inherited his father’s mood disorder. Bipolar disorder tends to run in families. Some research has suggested that people with certain genes are more likely to develop bipolar disorder than others (Bipolar Disorder in Adults).

How would you react if you found your wife in the shower with another man? Any sane person would furious, but would you lose control and beat the other man senseless? Bradley Cooper’s portrayal of bipolar disorder in The Silver Linings Playbook how untreated the disorder can take control of a person’s life giving them manic episodes and major depressive episodes. This film aims to accurately display the struggles any person with bipolar disorder will deal with in their daily life while trying to manage the extensive mood swings they experience. The intended purpose of this paper is to analyze not only in what ways the director and cast accurately display the everyday life of an individual with bipolar disorder, but also the quality of the film. Throughout the movie themes of divorce, medications, the need for social support when dealing with mental disorders and a person’s unwillingness to accept help, will all be brought up in order to help an individual manage their disorder.

A quote that most describes Patrick is “After a while, his eyes lost the glazey numb look from the wine or the coffee or the fact that he had stayed up the night before. Then, he started crying. Then, he started talking about Brad."(Chbosky, May 11,1992). Patrick is a person who expresses his feeling by crying after something big and then wants to move on from it. Patrick made a big deal about this because he had been with Brad for a long time and then for Brad to ignore him made him angry and for Patrick the only way to express that is in the form of tears. Patrick had been going though a lot at this time so he used charlie to help him get through this so he was not

It encompasses many genres such as comedy, drama, and romance. The portrayal of bipolar disorder helped the movie along with the stigma surrounding this disorder. It showed how serious manic episodes can be, but it also showed how difficult it is to deal with the consequences that manic episodes produce. The portrayal of the therapist did not help this movie, however, because it made it seem as if those with bipolar disorder can’t be helped by a therapist, but through a relationship, can overcome the disorder. There are some stereotypes of bipolar disorder that are supported by this film and there are some that are not. The stereotype that bipolar disorder is the equivalent of mood swings is not supported in this movie. “Silver Linings Playbook” accurately depicts the different episodes and shows the audience how serious they really are. It also shows how someone with bipolar disorder struggles with these episodes because they don’t have the intention of hurting other, however that tends to be a result of the episodes. One stereotype of many disorders is that those with disorders just need a good relationship to “heal” them. This is supported through this movie when Pat finds dance therapy and a relationship with Tiffany to be beneficial in many ways including overcoming his

Patrick was unable to be saved. Every effort was made to protect and save Patrick’s

One of the three emotions that Patrick felt can be found on page 64, and the text reads, “Then Andy, too, made him mad. Why couldn’t he just leave him alone?” The given quote represents the third feeling – how he was unable to understand what people did what they did. Another example to support that Patrick felt very emotional was when the author wrote, “Patrick grunted, and

When a seventh grader at Frederick Area High School in Frederick, South Dakota, was asked to describe what bipolar disorder is, he said that it refers to people that “change personalities fast” (McGaugh). However, this is only a common misconception. Though the word “bipolar” is often used in conversations to describe a person that has mood swings, bipolar disorder actually refers to a serious mental illness. According to the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, about 2.6 percent of American adults suffer from a form of bipolar disorder, and about one in five people with bipolar disorder commits suicide. Despite the impact that bipolar disorder has on the lives of patients and families alike, it is treated casually by people across the United States. Even though many treat it flippantly, bipolar disorder is a serious mental ailment, and the public needs to have a greater understanding of it.

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks (nimh.nih.gov). People that have this mental illness tend to easily lose their focus and gets triggered by anything that changes their mood. There are two types of episodes that occurs manic and depressive. During a manic episode, a person often behaves recklessly, picking fights and lashing out at people. During a depressive episode, the same person might have less energy, feel sad and hopeless (helpguide.org). This greatly affects their relationships with the people around them especially their family, friends, or significant other. Unfortunately, there is no cure for bipolar disorder, but there are treatments such as medications and therapy. Bipolar disorder is becoming so common that Hollywood has made several films about it, but probably the most popular one was the 2012 movie called Silver Linings Playbook.

Patricks emotionless, short, and raw phrases rob Mary of her ability to think properly. Patrick’s selfishness knocks Mary out of her state of mind, making her disbelieve every word he says. “It wouldn’t be very good for my job,” He tells her selfishly. As he went on,” She sat still through it all, watching him with kind of a dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word.” He was leaving her alone with her soon expecting baby to go and create a better life for himself without thinking of her feelings or emotions.

A life interchanging from high to low, happy to sad, to the brink of exploding with euphoria to the lowest low, is the life of a human living with Bipolar disorder. This roller coaster of emotions is inevitable and almost unlikely to cure in terms of later onset. Living with any personality disorder puts strain and hardship on your loved ones and is more then anyone would want to deal with in their short lifetime. These disorders are more common than we know and the way they are treated will determine the individual’s psychological outcome. The movie “Silver Linings Playbook” does a great job depicting a character with Bipolar disorder and the struggles the main character Pat faces on a day-to-day basis through his road to recovery.

Patrick is an emotionless zombie almost the whole time he’s alive. He comes home to his loving wife, who’s made him a drink even, and acts cold and emotionless. He finishes it and Mary offers to get more while he just says “sit down” as stone-cold as possible(Dahl

“Silver Linings Playbook” is an enthralling movie that follows a bipolar character named Pat, who after an eight-month court-mandated hospital sentence, must recuperate and improve his mental health in order to avoid going back to the hospital. Pat struggles immensely with controlling his anger, rapid thoughts, and his emotions. The movie does an excellent job at illustrating the endless personal turmoil an individual with Bipolar disorder struggles with. Additionally, the movie does a fantastic job at illustrating the long gradual route to recovery that all starts with acceptance of the disorder.

His affair was an escape from his ordinary life. He was tired from working the same job since graduation. He was tired of only having a servant-like wife waiting at home every day. But whenever he went out to meet Molly, it was a rush. A getaway for someone who could not get away. “I lied about what I was doing in the afternoons. I never had tough cases that kept me running around.” Patrick spoke a waterfall of words that he didn’t know that he would ever come to say. “She was just an excuse to not come home to my plain life. I needed that breath of fresh

It was all Pete 's fault. Patrick was supposed to go on his weekend shopping last Saturday, but Pete had decided that he wanted to drag Patrick to the mall and buy some random ass tupperware that Pete needed for some damn reason.