Molly Turpin first read John Green’s young adult novel, “Turtles All the Way Down,” in 2018 when she was in an inpatient psych ward for treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. It was an emotional ...
The following article discusses several mental health conditions. In cinema, it’s common to stereotype mental health and ...
Social media is full of misinformation about mental health. Creators try to combat misconceptions — but is that enough to ...
Stephen Fry has praised Silver Linings Playbook for its portrayal of mental illness. Bradley Cooper's lead character Pat suffers from bipolar disorder, and much of the drama centres on his unstable ...
Whenever I watch a movie or TV show where one or more of the characters is “afflicted” with mental illness, I do so with both caution and cynicism. I brace myself for what often seems like an ...
It is hard to quantify disorders we cannot see. There is no blood test that determines whether someone is mentally ill. Instead, the experts have to ask questions, lots of them. They have certain ...