Taxi Driver is a pretty violent film, but I’ve always appreciated Bickle’s slow descent into madness. A lot of movies tend to jump from sanity to insanity pretty quickly.
Oh, it's one of the greatest films of all time. Scorsese’s an amazing director. I think Taxi Driver is a fairly accurate portrayal of what mental illness looks like. In general, most categories of mental illness are insidious, with a gradual and slow onset. A disease like schizophrenia may start in your late teens and fully manifest in your mid 20s, other illnesses like Alzheimer’s may start very slowly in your 60s
Oh, it's one of the greatest films of all time. Scorsese’s an amazing director. I think Taxi Driver is a fairly accurate portrayal of what mental illness looks like. In general, most categories of mental illness are insidious, with a gradual and slow onset. A disease like schizophrenia may start in your late teens and fully manifest in your mid 20s, other illnesses like Alzheimer’s may start very slowly in your 60s
and fully manifest in your 70s. Some disorders have an immediate onset. Are you familiar with the term conversion disorder?
No.
Well, occasionally someone will be in a situation where they’ll develop, for example, hysterical blindness. So a classic example would be a woman who sees her child get run over by a car in front of her, and she goes blind and she can’t see, and she’s examined by ophthalmologists and optometrists and experts and neurologists, and there’s no reason for her blindness, but her blindness is very real; she can’t see. The presumption is that on some psychological level it’s a way of undoing this terrible thing she saw happen.
Well, occasionally someone will be in a situation where they’ll develop, for example, hysterical blindness. So a classic example would be a woman who sees her child get run over by a car in front of her, and she goes blind and she can’t see, and she’s examined by ophthalmologists and optometrists and experts and neurologists, and there’s no reason for her blindness, but her blindness is very real; she can’t see. The presumption is that on some psychological level it’s a way of undoing this terrible thing she saw happen.
What are some other causes of mental illness in the real world?
Mental illness is such a broad area it’s kind of like saying, “What is the major cause of disease?” There are lots of things that cause mental illness. We know that genetics plays a huge role; if you look at something like suicide, the likelihood of having a child commit suicide increases by about four-fold if a parent has committed suicide. We know that stress certainly plays a role; experience with trauma plays a role. We have lots of mentally ill soldiers coming back from Iraq, in part because they’ve been exposed to trauma. So, there are a lot of different causes for mental illness, and often times these make for fairly interesting films.
Mental illness is such a broad area it’s kind of like saying, “What is the major cause of disease?” There are lots of things that cause mental illness. We know that genetics plays a huge role; if you look at something like suicide, the likelihood of having a child commit suicide increases by about four-fold if a parent has committed suicide. We know that stress certainly plays a role; experience with trauma plays a role. We have lots of mentally ill soldiers coming back from Iraq, in part because they’ve been exposed to trauma. So, there are a lot of different causes for mental illness, and often times these make for fairly interesting films.
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