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‘Melancholia’ (2011) and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Planet
How Lars Von Trier portrays mental illness as a superpower in Melancholia.
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MHAM: ‘We All Have Powers’: Grief and Trauma in the Spider-Man Films
When the character of Peter Parker and his superhero persona Spider-Man was created by comic book writers and artists Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in the early 1960s, they were excited about the concept of a superhero who wasn’t completely invincible.
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MHAM: ‘Maniac’ (2019) Presents a Down-to-Earth Depiction of Borderline Personality Disorder in an Otherwise Outlandish World
There is something overwhelmingly lonely about suffering from a condition that is so misunderstood, so feared and so shrouded in stigma that you could go your whole life without seeing it depicted accurately on TV.
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MHAM: How ‘Doom Patrol’ Deconstructs Superhero Tropes to Explore Mental Illness
To say that Doom Patrol is a very weird show would be an understatement. Since its debut on DC Universe last year, the show has given us some of the strangest and most bizarre moments ever seen in the history of TV. There’s a talking giant cockroach named Ezekiel who can predict the end of…
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MHAM: Another Side of Daniel Craig
He starred in numerous explorations of complex characters, bringing light to different mental health issues in a way significant enough to influence my own wellbeing.
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MHAM: A World of Unsane Women – A Look Into ‘Unsane’ (2018)
Einstein once stated that the definition of insanity – or unsanity for the sake of the film’s title – was the act of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
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MHAM: ‘Fleabag’ (2016-2019) and the Messy Reality of Mental Illness
“Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) can’t be easily defined. She is layered, she is real, she is – in all honesty – a disaster.”
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MHAM: ‘Kidding’ (2018) and Being Scared of “I Don’t Know’s”
Kidding has cemented itself as a show regularly dealing with heavy issues in a way that is accessible to many.
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MHAM: Mental Vs. Physical Well-Being and Confronting One’s Own Failing Support System in ‘Sex Education’ (2019)
Sex Education opens up a clear discussion on the comparison between mental and physical health through a redefinition of the classic jock archetype.
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