We all mad here.

 

“But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

If you look at most movies and characters in them you will notice that mental health is something we like to make fun of or marginalize , from old movies like Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man, Shutter Island to the Joker, Harlley Quine, Fight Club, a Beautiful Mind, Hannibal, Split and the list goes on and on.

What is commonly portrayed in movies is usually far from the real thing. Movies like A Clockwork Orange or Fight Club give mental illness a punk rock edge that makes it almost fun in a way. The schedules and pressures of our technology-heavy, artificially busy modern lives take its toll, and the movie version of madness can seem like a much-needed vacation. Characters like the Joker and Harley Quinn are also getting quite a lot of attention these days, and their particular flavor of madness is portrayed as destructive yet still whimsical and joyful, even cute in a way.

True insanity is a disease. There is nothing fun or desirable about it, and there are many other mental illnesses that are unfairly or incorrectly portrayed in entertainment. Exceptions do exist, of course, but serial killers are rarely charming, multiple personalities are rarely witty and sociable, and hallucinations rarely lead to anarchistic revolution. Mental disorders are often romanticized or softened or augmented with “extra ingredients.” There’s nothing inherently wrong about this, but like everything in the entertainment world, it should hardly be taken as a reflection of reality.

In my own world my mom committed suicide because she had schizophrenia, my mother in law has severe depression, and my husband suffers from anxiety, depression and has OCD.

People do not "choose" to succumb to their illness to escape responsibility, rather than fighting a biological and psychological war every single day.

Mental illness is very real and because we make fun of it ,it is a silent killer that no one wants to talk about. Real life does not look like the movies.