#shawleveryday2019 Day 35
Mental illness has frequently been portrayed in various media, sometimes accurately, but often not. Below are some media that actually gets it right.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Rebecca Bunch, borderline personality disorder
Frozen - Elsa, depression and anxiety
Matchstick Men - Roy, obsessive-compulsive disorder
This Is Us - Randall, anxiety
The Skeleton Twins - Milo and Maggie, depression
Infinitely Polar Bear - Cam Stuart, bipolar disorder
Goodbye Christopher Robin - A. A. Milne, post-traumatic stress disorder
They Look Like People - Wyatt, schizophrenia
Winnie the Pooh - Eeyore, depression
BoJack Horseman - BoJack Horseman, depression
And here are some that could do it better.
Silver Linings Playbook - Pat Solitano, bipolar disorder (read more here and here)
Monk - Monk, OCD
Scandal - Olivia Pope, PTSD (read more here)
Sherlock - Sherlock Holmes (as played by Benedict Cumberbatch), sociopathy
Psycho - Norman Bates, schizophrenia and dissociate identity disorder
Homeland - Carrie Mathison, bipolar disorder
Shutter Island - Teddy, delusional disorder and/or schizophrenia (read more here)
