Mental Illness in Film (video essay)

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another video essay :) it’s mental health awareness month! another school project, that’s why there’s quotes and a not very nuanced take lol (gotta answer the prompt!). ty for love on the last one. i’m gonna try to make some more videos this summer

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CORRECTIONS:
this video was a school project and if i had known so many people would see it, i would've been more careful with my language!
1. DID is not necessarily rare as I said, as some estimate there are many misdiagnoses and undiagnosed cases.
2. Don't forget this video is about mental illness in FILM specifically. Feel free to discuss any media in the comments, but if you're asking why I didn't mention a TV show/series, that's why.
3. No one has mentioned this but I want to clarify I discussed Sia's "Music" and autism as an example of inauthenticity, not mental illness.

Some sources if you’re curious:
Queerness and mental illness in film: https://lwlies.com/articles/illustrat...
Transphobia in Silence of the Lambs: https://www.vox.com/culture/22281548/...
"A Visual Culture of Stigma: Critically Examining Representations of Mental Illness" by Jennifer Eisenhaur
“‘Have You Ever Seen the inside of One of Those Places?’: Psycho, Foucault, and the Postwar Context of Madness” by Cynthia Erb
“The Ghettoization of Disability: Paradoxes of Visibility and Invisibility in Cinema” by Lennard J. Davis
NAMI and Mental Health America:
https://www.nami.org/Your-Journey/Ide...
https://www.mhanational.org/issues/bl...

i feel like a youtuber :o k byee