The Dark Knight and Clarification
All I have been hearing these past few days is how good the new Batman movie is. I don't normally like comic book movies, as the superhero powers are just too unbelievable to me. However, Batman doesn't have superhero powers, so I have been quite excited to see the film.
My dad heard the screenwriter talk on the radio about how he wrote the Joker character to be much more realistic than any villain in the usual comic book movies—darker and more realistic. Then, after my parents saw the movie, my mother informed me that they say in the movie that the Joker has schizophrenia! That certainly can't be a good portrayal of mental illness on screen.
I could go searching website to see exactly what has been portrayed in the movie about schizophrenia, but I'm still planning on seeing it so I don't want to read anything that will spoil the plot. If any of you know more about this issue, then I would be glad to hear about it (provided you don't give away the storyline). I wonder if NAMI has come out with a statement about this.
Clarification: Because my book hasn't really been released to the public, my blog readers don't really know who I am as a person just yet. I have been reading and listening to my blog entries, and I fear that I might be coming off as flippant in my attitude toward mental illness. Nothing could be further from the truth. It has caused me a great hellish existence for many years, and now that I'm becoming healthier and finally have something going well in my life, I am so overwhelmed with joy. I do know that this is but a temporary joy, and that my health will not persist—I will relapse eventually. But in the meantime I will try to live every second of this joyous state. I was without joy and was suicidal for so many years that I don't want to miss one moment of the happiness that I now have. So readers, please forgive me if I come off in a way that seems that I don't take mental illness seriously. It is so very serious, and for that reason I'm going to try to take this season of happiness and relish it.
My dad heard the screenwriter talk on the radio about how he wrote the Joker character to be much more realistic than any villain in the usual comic book movies—darker and more realistic. Then, after my parents saw the movie, my mother informed me that they say in the movie that the Joker has schizophrenia! That certainly can't be a good portrayal of mental illness on screen.
I could go searching website to see exactly what has been portrayed in the movie about schizophrenia, but I'm still planning on seeing it so I don't want to read anything that will spoil the plot. If any of you know more about this issue, then I would be glad to hear about it (provided you don't give away the storyline). I wonder if NAMI has come out with a statement about this.
Clarification: Because my book hasn't really been released to the public, my blog readers don't really know who I am as a person just yet. I have been reading and listening to my blog entries, and I fear that I might be coming off as flippant in my attitude toward mental illness. Nothing could be further from the truth. It has caused me a great hellish existence for many years, and now that I'm becoming healthier and finally have something going well in my life, I am so overwhelmed with joy. I do know that this is but a temporary joy, and that my health will not persist—I will relapse eventually. But in the meantime I will try to live every second of this joyous state. I was without joy and was suicidal for so many years that I don't want to miss one moment of the happiness that I now have. So readers, please forgive me if I come off in a way that seems that I don't take mental illness seriously. It is so very serious, and for that reason I'm going to try to take this season of happiness and relish it.
Not flippant at all, I know all to well what it's like to feel good, and all to well what it's like to relapse. If you didn't take mental illness serious you wouldn't be doing all that your doing, and I thank you for that.
I just wish I could open up more, but it scares me to let anyone know, so I keep me hidden.
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It is a very difficult thing opening up and telling people of a mental illness--very difficult. To tell you the truth, I still don't know how I'm going to fare once everyone knows. It is important to me, however, and so I guess I'll just have to take one for the team.
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