Bipolar Disoder in the Media (Mental Health Guru)

Michael Clayton, featured a bipolar main character, but this is just one example of bipolar disorder in film. How does the media impact the general understanding of this mental illness? http://mental.healthguru.com/

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[8317rob]

i suffer from this and i rather give some one death then bipolar, no joke

[10kinga]

isnt every one bi polar in one form or another

[JustTrollinAlong]

i have bi-polar but i've learned to control it. i get depressed sometimes but through logical self reasoning, i overcome. i hardly ever get truly manic, i think i kind of got it under control.

[TheLilacmama]

The biggest detriment media has done to people with bi-polar and perceptions about them is to repeatedly convince people that ALL bi-polar people must be medicated in order to manage. As with any other disorder of the mind or body, individuals can have differing levels or categories within larger groupings, and must find what works for them as an individual and as a whole treatment, not a quick fix.

[snowbunny502]

i fucking hate that perrier commercial..it scares the shit out of me.

[batboyjhg]

@Hemulen40 lol

[djyhad]

@djyhad (that is not to say those movies should not be done, i enjoy them. I would just never confuse 'having heard the name and seeing an actor do it' with 'awareness')

[djyhad]

It does not promote awareness, but ignorance.

People get to know the name of a disorder, and somehow are sure that they know what it is just because some actor did it in a movie, be it schizofrenia, bipolarity or ocd.

It also promotes prescription abuse, since anyone has some weird psychiatric symptom/tendency and may now identify himself with some actor and claim a mental illness.

Also promotes self-pitty because instead of solving your problem, you label it, take a pill and complain.