Interesting thread. My parents, both social workers (I think LCSW), and I all saw the Silver Linings Playbook, with Bradley Cooper. The parents, if I I understand them correctly, said Cooper's character was just annoying, not mentally ill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNFUGWmYldc
I live in San Diego, where there are many mentally ill people. Some seem very subtly affected. Others seem completely unable to function. Lots of PTSD (San Diego has many war vets), which is pretty obvious when it gets set off, but most seem to be of that subtle kind. It's like you know it (or think youknow it) when you see it,but it's hard to define.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNFUGWmYldc
I live in San Diego, where there are many mentally ill people. Some seem very subtly affected. Others seem completely unable to function. Lots of PTSD (San Diego has many war vets), which is pretty obvious when it gets set off, but most seem to be of that subtle kind. It's like you know it (or think youknow it) when you see it,but it's hard to define.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
