Good Entertainment but not at all realistic - see it anyways

Rating: 9/10 (14 February 2013)

Although this movie is definitely entertaining and well made it does little to show the actual road to Bi-Polar Effective Disorder (BAD) recovery. In the movie the subject spends eight months in a mental institution after a major break with reality. He is then discharged without being grounded except with medication that he resists taking. He is easily seduced into a dance contest in order to be with a girl with whom he is attracted. She is just about ungrounded as he is. Then after doing well in the dance contest it looks like it is going to be all silver linings.
If one knows anything about B.A.D. it is that the recovery takes a lot more than is shown in the movie.
However, there can be recovery if a person works at it. The work they will have to do is to grieve many wounds and losses they incurred while growing up. It takes deep grieving and unless they are prepared to do the work they will most likely run from it. It is the hardest spiritual work they will ever be required to do. But, if you do it you will come out feeling whole and in charge of your life. You will feel okay with yourself. If you commit to do the work the things you will need to do will become apparent. Keep faith.
You will have to let loose of some relationships that are in your life because they will not want you to change. This will hurt but it is necessary. Good luck