SPOILERS!!
I'm Bi Polar II, Atypical Depression, OCD.
Those aren't the spoilers :)
I've been in a few psych wards when I felt a little too close to suicidal.
Thank God it's been over a dozen years since the last time and I'm doing ok.
But I did have reactions to some meds that made me hear music that wasn't real and have conversations that didn't happen.
I remember crying on the floor in the psych ward because my girlfriend had dumped me on the phone just then. Only she didn't. It wasn't real.
It stopped after they took me off that med!
And I met a LOT of Schizophrenics and Bi Polar folks and folks with hosts of other issues.
This movie reminds me of some of the stories fellow patients told me, nothing NEAR as drastic or horrific, with the damage to themselves being the worst damage they did.
One poor guy sliced his neck to pieces because a voice told him to. Thank God he survived. He was a good guy and you would never know he had issues when he is on his medication.
One guy did hide in his closet with a shotgun and that could have ended very badly since he thought he was being stalked. Thank God it didn't.
So this movie is the real deal and of course VERY, VERY RARE...but it's not fantasy nor complete fiction.
This movie made me thankful that I don't have extreme issues like this guy did.
But it also frightened me because it made me think...the times the meds did make me hear voices and music, it was pretty damn real and pretty damn terrifying at the time.
People giving this 1 or 2 stars are SO OFF BASE, heck they're not even on the field.
And they must no NO ONE intimately who has mental illness.
No, we are not monsters. Even those Very Few violent ones among us.
But yes, we are broken.
Medication is like glue that keeps puts us together after it's discovered we're broken. Therapy too.
Scary...no, not just scary.... horrifying is what I think this movie is. And I don't get horrified easily.
I knew after a few minutes that the friend was not real.
I NEVER saw the ending coming. When the roommate called her a "freak", I should have realized.
Even at the end, when she was being so nasty in front of the therapist, I knew something was off but still didn't figure it out.
Then of course the last line or two gave it away.
That and the fact that she was not on the couch in the last image where she was supposed to be sitting!!! :)
Enjoy this movie, learn from it, get terrified and horrified because that is what we watch horror movies for.
I'm SURE all of your are smart enough to know that OF COURSE this is an extreme example of the illness, but...IT'S A MOVIE!!
Watching a movie about me taking pills every 8 hours while leading a relatively normal life would be pretty boring :)
And ignore the bad reviews. They are from people who likely have led charmed lives. I am glad for them. I would have the same negative reaction too if I had no idea about mental illness, I guess.
I'm Bi Polar II, Atypical Depression, OCD.
Those aren't the spoilers :)
I've been in a few psych wards when I felt a little too close to suicidal.
Thank God it's been over a dozen years since the last time and I'm doing ok.
But I did have reactions to some meds that made me hear music that wasn't real and have conversations that didn't happen.
I remember crying on the floor in the psych ward because my girlfriend had dumped me on the phone just then. Only she didn't. It wasn't real.
It stopped after they took me off that med!
And I met a LOT of Schizophrenics and Bi Polar folks and folks with hosts of other issues.
This movie reminds me of some of the stories fellow patients told me, nothing NEAR as drastic or horrific, with the damage to themselves being the worst damage they did.
One poor guy sliced his neck to pieces because a voice told him to. Thank God he survived. He was a good guy and you would never know he had issues when he is on his medication.
One guy did hide in his closet with a shotgun and that could have ended very badly since he thought he was being stalked. Thank God it didn't.
So this movie is the real deal and of course VERY, VERY RARE...but it's not fantasy nor complete fiction.
This movie made me thankful that I don't have extreme issues like this guy did.
But it also frightened me because it made me think...the times the meds did make me hear voices and music, it was pretty damn real and pretty damn terrifying at the time.
People giving this 1 or 2 stars are SO OFF BASE, heck they're not even on the field.
And they must no NO ONE intimately who has mental illness.
No, we are not monsters. Even those Very Few violent ones among us.
But yes, we are broken.
Medication is like glue that keeps puts us together after it's discovered we're broken. Therapy too.
Scary...no, not just scary.... horrifying is what I think this movie is. And I don't get horrified easily.
I knew after a few minutes that the friend was not real.
I NEVER saw the ending coming. When the roommate called her a "freak", I should have realized.
Even at the end, when she was being so nasty in front of the therapist, I knew something was off but still didn't figure it out.
Then of course the last line or two gave it away.
That and the fact that she was not on the couch in the last image where she was supposed to be sitting!!! :)
Enjoy this movie, learn from it, get terrified and horrified because that is what we watch horror movies for.
I'm SURE all of your are smart enough to know that OF COURSE this is an extreme example of the illness, but...IT'S A MOVIE!!
Watching a movie about me taking pills every 8 hours while leading a relatively normal life would be pretty boring :)
And ignore the bad reviews. They are from people who likely have led charmed lives. I am glad for them. I would have the same negative reaction too if I had no idea about mental illness, I guess.