The theater lights go down and the screen lights up. It’s a movie about someone with schizophrenia, but what’s the plot? Serial killer?
Savant? Someone helpless? As someone living with schizoaffective disorder, I’m sick of movies where a character with schizophrenia is a villain or genius, and I’m tired of seeing symptoms exaggerated or just flat-out incorrect.
It doesn’t help people with schizophrenia or the image of the disease in society. But, coming out on February 12, 2021, is a movie about a character with schizophrenia that I actually want to see: “Fear of Rain.”“Fear of Rain” details the experience of a teenage girl with schizophrenia as she struggles through symptoms and begins to suspect that a neighbor has kidnapped a child.
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