Schizophrenia
The story untold..
Schizophrenia.
The word that everybody fears the most to say as it brings bad images/thoughts
to minds, or it’s just a hard word to pronouns for some. For the people
who are reading this article and have no clue to what schizophrenia is,
this is a long term mental disorder some people can have, it is a
breakdown in relation between thoughts, emotions and behaviour it can
lead to inappropriate actions and feelings, where
they don't realize from reality and personal relationships
into fantasy and delusions. Basing a production around this
is difficult in terms of making sure that I am not personally
insulting anyone and trying to change the perspective of people thoughts/views
on mental illness. This is something serious and should not be a topic that is
taken lightly and throughout the production, I have tried to make it out so its
allowing the audience to understand of how someone could feel if they do
have mental illness but also to actually to consideration of what it could be
like if they were put into this position, a position where there is no way
to escape, no one is there to help, the sense of feeling alone and a position
where you feel like you don't fit into this world as if you’re an
different kind of creature to the rest.
Emotion. Pain. Thoughts. Behaviour. These 4 words all connect
with each other; feeling an emotion such as pain can bring up thoughts that
certain individuals would have memories and thoughts with it, this would
be playing around their minds for a long time and in result it can be something
that makes the person behaves the certain way they do. This is the same as
people who have schizophrenia, they have it as a long-term thing where
they can't help what they do and act but it is there for them, and it is
something that they can't change… Isn't this similar to what people
feel? Yes, it may not be a continuous feelings and a messy situation,
but just because there is a disorder named after this doesn't mean that
they need to be singled out from everyone. From this production as a director,
I have tried to show how it can be for people who are in this situation, as I
want to make people aware of what it is like for them, how they are just like
everyone else but they are always in their own mind. I have
linked this to relationships as many people in the audience can
connect with and create an identification through
the relationship part of the film and just see it if they were
in the movie themselves and see people who have this "illness"
are normal people too regardless the fact that society have singled them
out just because they are part of a "mental illness". People
view things differently and that is fine, they have their
own opinion, which is respectable; however, there is a point where
people need to understand there are boundaries and a limit to some
things that they do not need cross to hurt someone, but many people don't
take this consideration as they talk about mental illness or other serious
issues as it wouldn't do no damage to individuals - people suffer, and most
of it is through silence, it can lead to things like serious issues like
self-harm, keeping themselves in starvation etc. just
because society doesn't get what it is like with pressure or
just generally don't know how it could feel like for someone with
mental illness, it doesn't mean that people can create them
any different or seem them in a strange way.
This production is meant to
change people’s thoughts and views, about how society can single out
people, especially focusing on mental illness. This production is there
for audiences to understand that everyone is the same
and shouldn't separate others just because they may act
different to you, or you do not understand them. Through this I want people
to realize that it’s never bad to help people through their hard
times.
This
was originally inspired from watching a scene from "Donnie
Darko", where it made me feel as though that people need to understand the
emotions of someone with deep troubles and the idea of basing the
production around schizophrenia. The inspiration came from a simple
feeling whilst watching a sense from "Donnie Darko" - which was
feeling connected and understanding. I felt in need to doing similar with
my production in sense of give the audience the same feeling, and I felt
that giving them a direct message, to something that not many don't
really spend their time thinking about but also a subject that
people don't want to face because they don't think it is important.
Mental illness is something that not many people don't want to come in thoughts
with and through making this movie, I want people to have a
different perspective of this subject, to see that mental
illness shouldn't be the reason why the single out people just because
they have it and act different towards. End of the day they are still humans.
Leaving this
article with a simple quote: “The way you treat people says a lot about
who you are. Be careful. Your actions are screaming over your words."
~ Thema Davis ~
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