My Interests

By Anonymous
I'm really interested in mental health stigma and the ways mental health is trivialized and minimized by pop culture. I specifically want to talk about the OCD subset of anxiety. I'm thinking of using Turtles All the Way Down by John Green and comparing it to the TV show "Monk," but I'd love to have other options because these are basically just the only things I've found that even mention OCD.

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2019 at 6:17 AM

    I think this is a really good idea. The stigma around mental health is a huge problem in our country! I also think the term OCD is used incorrectly all the time, so writing about these books that are actually correct (or at least close to) in defining OCD.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2019 at 8:05 AM

    I think that this is a really cool topic that can bring to light a bunch of issues around mental health as well as clarify, as Ayla said, what exactly OCD is and how it effects people and characters.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2019 at 9:06 AM

    I think this is a really cool topic and definitely something that should be discussed more in literature to bring more awareness to people in our communities. Being able to show readers how mental health affects these characters will be very interesting

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  4. Ms. SchieffelinJanuary 24, 2019 at 7:52 AM

    I like your idea to focus on the ways in which mental health is represented or misrepresented in pop culture. Since you likely won't find much criticism (if any) on "Turtles..." or "Monk." What you could do, though, is draw on psychological research instead as your criticism. You might want to look into the episode of "Girls" that focuses on the central character, Hannah, spinning out of control with her OCD. I think there were one or two episodes that focused on it. Lena Dunham, who created the series, has struggled with it herself and even written about it (I think).

    Excited to work with you on this!

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