Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tired is mental," Menick said. "If you convince yourself you're not tired, you feel a little better out there... If its up to me, I want to stay in [the game...
...takes her medicine." Lesly, as the odd man out, is the only character to question the family's complete submission to and indulgence of Jackie O. With the exact nature of Jackie's illness left very vague, the viewer suffers from a devilish, but painful, ambivalence over whether her mental state followed the incest or was present all along. Meanwhile, Mrs. Pascal and the rest of the family accept the incest as a natural occurrence in this very unconventional family...
...that your family is dysfunctional? Do you dread going home for Thanksgiving? Welcome to The House of Yes: you're probably not this bad off. With a screenplay adapted from Wendy MacLeod's acclaimed play, the film touches with a brilliant but subtle hand on complex issues such as mental illness, family relationships, upper class apathy and sex. This beautiful movie has a quiet, dream-like quality that lends an appropriate surrealism to the entire set. In this world, nothing is real or logical; everything is permissible and negotiated, from identity to familial relationships...
Through my work with the Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group, I have become painfully aware of the fact that mental illness is far from rare among any population; and if Harvard is exceptional, then it is because mental illness is more prevalent here than among the general public, not less. What frightens me most of all is that even in light of the hell I have walked through, I've learned that, in many ways, I've been relatively lucky...
Jeremy Ray Jenkins '97-'98 is co-founder and co-chair of Harvard-Radcliffe Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group...