#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)

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