Can Silver Linings Playbook Ease Bipolar Prejudice?
One of the films in the running for Best Picture at the Oscars this year is Silver Linings Playbook.
The film features a character who has bipolar disorder – the condition that affects people’s moods.
It is being seen as another important step towards getting us all to understand and accept the fact that mental illness is a part of many people’s lives
Shea Wong, who has bipolar herself, told the Today programme: “In the past, people with bi-polar disorder were often treated as walking comedy and tragedy masks. They were either always up, or always down.
“It is systemic, it is a cultural systemic stigma. But we have to think of it in terms of getting passed that. The mental health community is moving through a stage where we do have to educate the public and take that fear away. Once you can implant education, the fear is very quickly removed.”
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I suffer from Bipolar with mixed episodes, and I think Bradley Cooper did a magnificent portrayal of someone suffering from bipolar
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