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| Pills or feelings: Movie Garden State Explores |
| “The only thing I liked doing was pretending to be someone else”. Andrew Larger was a college going kid diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and had been on pills since childhood. He had been on Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and Depakote in the past. He now took lithium. |
| The movie begins with a phone call from his father informing him that his mother had died. “I haven’t cried since I was a kid, not even on my mom’s funeral,” he later tells his girlfriend Samantha. |
| Garden State, very adeptly explores how Andrew’s past continues to haunt his present. |
| It is difficult for a child to grow up in a disturbed home environment. He may react with rage, clinginess or withdrawal. The child does not have the tools to understand his own behaviors and of those around him. He looks up to grown ups to provide him with answers. The grown ups tell him ‘you have ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)’ or the latest fad ‘Bipolar Disorder’. Like Andrew Larger he grows up feeling that he has a defective brain. He tries to act normal and fights against his feelings, resulting in a state of emotional numbness. |
| At some point either through a fortunate relationship or through a good therapist he starts learning about normal human feelings. It is a pleasurable and uplifting experience. |
| Garden State does to some extent capture that dilemma and its resolution. It is a movie worth watching. |
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