crazed and infused: A mental Illness themed movie I wont be watching

Saturday, July 25, 2009

A mental Illness themed movie I wont be watching

Donnie Darko
It looked like it would freak me out, from what I hear about it I think it would freak me out, and considering my friend said 'itll make you question your sanity, you wont like' I dont think ill be watching it anytime soon.
I hear its one of those movies you have to see... am i really missing out?
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ReneeJuly 25, 2009 at 10:30 PM
It certainly didn't bring further doubts into my sanity. I thought it was a nifty little movie, but if I had never seen it, my life would be no better or worse than it is right now. :)
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CiaJuly 25, 2009 at 10:49 PM
good to know... I read the coles notes of it online and now that i know what happens I think i could watch it, but going into it expecting to be freaked out would have only caused my distress!
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While I can be described as generally quite pessimistic and passionate (others would say angry) person, most of what I write here is never really 'angry', but rather the result of having had to bottle up frustrations. As an active feminist activist I am often frustrated with the wall one often faces because of ingrained sexism and other forms of discrimination that penetrates all levels of our society; but as an activist I have an outlet to release this frustration and 'do something about it'. With my experience of mental illness I have had to bottle these feelings because, it seems, my friends and family feel uncomfortable if I talk about it, my doctors sure do not want to hear about it, and often I have enough self doubt that even I will disregard its importance.
But here, I get to release these experiences and frustrations. I get to get them off my chest and work through them in my own way.
So if I sounds angry, its probably just frustration with a healthy dose of sarcasm. ; )

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It becomes apparent quickly that I am a bit skeptical of the knowledge we have of psychology/psychiatry. My extensive experience with doctors of all sorts has only convinced me that at times psychology/psychiatry are pseudo sciences. What I mean by this is that the people who study and practice these fields - those we call "experts" - often do not know how the mind works, boundaries of diagnoses often blur and there is little awareness of why some treatments work when others do not. Psychiatric drugs are litterally a shot in the dark because often scientists do not know how or why they work, research just tells them that sometimes they do. Diagnoses are at times laughable in how vague and inadequate they are. (How many of us has heard, "you have (bipolar) tendencies" or "characteristics of (obessive compulsive disorder)".)
BUT, to make myself clear, I am not angry toward or dismiss the role of these "experts", they are doing the best they can with limited knowledge. But thats just it... how can anyone be a true expert when so little is known of a subject?

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