"It becomes muddied. "In fact, persons with mental illness are more likely to be victims of crimes than to commit them. "Joe Parks, a psychiatrist and Medical Director for the National Council for Behavioral Health, says he felt the mental health portrayal in "Joker" was "unnecessary" and "stigmatizing," though he praised the film for emphasizing the importance of "being kind to one another, and not bullying. The audience walks away associating Fleck's violent behavior, particularly the gun violence, with his mental illness," says Pozios, who fears the film buttresses arguments made after violent acts such as mass shootings.
She was heartened to have a mass audience experience this world. It's particularly problematic to diagnose "evil" characters who do wrongful things, he said, as it strengthens the incorrect stereotype that there is "Research clearly indicates that individuals with mental illness are no more violent than the population as a whole," he said. "A lot of this is messing with us. The moment demonstrates the unusual perspective allowed through director Todd Phillips' film, on track to be the Like everything else about the polarizing "Joker," feelings around the film's depiction of mental health struggles are complex.Psychiatrists Vasilis K. Pozios and Praveen R. Kambam of Fleck is presented with a mental health backstory: He's seen meeting with his counselor and taking seven different drugs for his unspecified condition. Key points in the film are clearly part of Fleck's delusions, such as his first meeting with his hero, talk show host Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro), who praises Fleck for taking care of his mother. Schizophrenia, a severe mental illness that sees individuals experience thought disorder where they are not able to think clearly or logically, delusions where they believe things that aren't true, and negative symptoms like not having the motivation to engage in anything productive. The character's descent into violence has experts debating the message it sends. "It's like (Fleck) went on his killing spree because he is 'crazy,' that's the conclusion audiences come to, which is unfortunate. "For example, when we give someone in psychiatry the label 'bipolar,' that doesn't mean that we are reporting on the most interesting thing about that person.
"As a result, it's "hard to judge" how people are taking the overall message, Diefenbach says, "Because I don’t know if everyone is receiving this film the way I was. It's just one aspect of that person, and rarely fully explains behavior. And you see how that impacts the people you serve," says northern Virginia social worker Devra Gordon.
"It depicted how one day you have a program, and the next day you don’t. Warner Bros.
He told Insider the film portrays the lack of resources and neglect around mental health quite well, but it also gets a lot wrong. "© 2020 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. That’s accurate. "I think the Joker character forces us to grapple with this innate human capacity for evil, which is ultimately unexplainable, and which is fruitfully explored in works of art. About 1-2% of men and 0.3-0.7% of women in the general population are estimated to be true psychopaths, but for the rest of us, we fall on the scale somewhere lower down.It's associated with charm, manipulation, callousness and the ability to tell the difference between right and wrong but having little care for the rules in practice.