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Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2014)

The Silver Linings Playbook focuses on many types of mental illness and some characteristics that sign mental illness. The protagonist Pat has a number of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar and possibly ADHD. In the film this is depicted very well and seems very realistic but still makes it light hearted. Other characters such as Pat's friend/ love interest Tiffany also ha signs of mental illness and has been on all the medications that are for people with things such as depression but has not actually been diagnosed with a mental illness as far as we know although she may have grief due to the passing of her husband.