Needs more detail on portrayal of mental illness

Rating: 7/10 (7 July 2014)

Silver Linings Playbook shows all the major characters to be suffering from a great range of mental illnesses which varies from Depression to OCD to Bi-polar disorder. These mental illnesses are depicted some-what accurately through the film but there are some flaws that I feel could have been addressed. The Characters who suffer depression are not shown to be suffering the same symptoms of depression that people in reality suffer from. The Characters do not have great slumps in mood, feel like the world is against them and then isolate themselves from family. If you watch carefully you will notice that the characters are always doing something during the film, they never isolate themselves from family. Being from a family with a history of depression and mental I feel that they are not portraying mental illnesses in enough detail that they could of.