What are your thoughts of the recurring theme of a psychotic

It's hard to define what qualifies as mental illness. Half the population is on pills for something. Lots of the most successful people in the corporate world are sociopaths. It's all about what word you use, if you say "mentally ill" you get a picture of a full-bllown nutjob. Anyway those villains probably are mentally ill right? So I don't know what can be done not to stigmatize you.

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Mental illness is a crutch many movies use because its easy to explain, and people 'get it'.
General audiences have a hard time understanding how someone can do something terrible for just 'no reason'. There always has to be a reason, even though in real life its not always the case.
Some of the worst people in the world were normal and mentally sound. They just liked doing the things they did. This doesn't make a good movie though.

>>85634383
Some people would make the argument that if you enjoy murdering people you're definitely mentally ill. It's tricky because the vast majority of these diagnoses don't have any actual test, they're just a set of symptoms with a word attached to them.

>>85634237
we hates it forever

It's a crutch for hack writers.

>>85634512
underrated post

>>85634237

what examples of psychotic antagonists are you thinking of? all the ones i can think of are psychopathic too, not just psychotic...important distinction (psychopaths have no conscience, psychosis just means delusional beliefs)

its the difference between john nash and norman bates...

i think theres more protagonists (a beautiful mind, spider, shutter island, etc.) with psychosis who aren't psychopaths, although you could claim their portrayal is still stigmatizing (that they're always trainwrecks and rarely stable and are often just used as a writing crutch of 'token crazy person')...still though i admit i kinda liked a beautiful mind

im bipolar 1 so ive had it too, although im more healthy and stable and happy than most of my "non-mentally ill" friends...but ive never seen that on TV

Sometimes it's a good part of the writing. Like Better Call Saul, Split, and Horace and Pete. Sometimes it's retardo like Batman and schizophrenics flocking to work for the Joker.

>>85634237
writers dont understand psychiatric disorders. They just add them in a scene where the protag reads the character profile. They only do it to make the antagonist sound edgy and dangerous. Thats it. Thats as far as it goes, and as far as they have thought of it.