Hey deserving listeners, today I'm going to talk about the most accurately portrayed DSM disorders in characters and movies.

This was actually suggested as a top 11 list by patron Malika during our 11th anniversary show earlier this year

We asked for a bunch of people to submit different top 11 lists they wanted us to do

and this is one of them and there were so many good ones that some of them got left

on the cutting room floor and so I just thought I would do some of those now. These movies are in no

particular order and I actually couldn't come up with 11. I could only come up with I

don't know eight or nine or something because there's so few movies and TV shows that depict

mental illness. So there's two things I'm looking for. One, do they portray it

accurately and two, do they give us enough detail that actually

tells us that the character actually has that disorder because like in Iron Man 3 for example we have

Tony Stark who exhibits some PTSD symptoms but the movie probably for a good reason, doesn't really go into detail about his symptoms because that's, you know, it's trying to...

Iron Man 3 is a superhero movie. It's supposed to be PG 13 and light and fun. But you know with a twist of psychological issues that the character has.

So you know it makes sense that issues that the character has.

So you know it makes sense that they wouldn't go into detail.

So I'm looking for is it accurate and is there enough information so that we can be like

yep this person actually does have this disorder.

So in no particular order, I'll start with, there will be blood.

This is perhaps one of the only movies that depicts narcissistic personality disorder

accurately. I did actually a whole episode on this and if you want to you know

listen to that you can listen to that where I broke down all the different movies that claim to be good

depictions of narcissism and there will be blood as perhaps the only movie I can

think of aside from my next movie which which is The Talented Mr. Ripley.

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