Here was a movie that said, loudly and clearly, exactly what needs to be said, which is: screw the just-go-get-help discourse that’s been dominating our discussions about mental illness. This was a movie that was making me feel understood, and I didn’t realize how much I needed that. Before I saw the film, I worried it would make a false association between mental illness and violence. But what the movie does quite brilliantly is make it clear that contrary to popular belief, anger and violence are not symptoms of any mental illness. Being misunderstood and disbelieved is something people who live with mental and/or neurological disorders, often described as “invisible illnesses,” experience every.

Source: thestar October 15, 2019 09:56 UTC