Mental Illness - or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Madness

I have come to acknowledge and accept my mental illness for some time now. For the most part I have been able to manage my condition by strengthening my social networks, practising mindfulness, using psychotherapy and sticking to a protocol of medication. However, my affliction has had a major impact on my life and will continue to do so until the day I die. So naturally I have a mixed relationship towards depictions of psychopathology in movies. Films seem to portray it in one of three ways. Firsrly, a good deal of realism might be used in an attempt to…