https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw Turtles All The Way Down en-us 2018-08-24 19:15:18 UTC 2018-08-29 04:40:10 UTC hello@padlet.com andres_lara78 https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/275952016 The author believes that mental illness isn't something you can easily control. He shows multiple scenarios of Aza trying to overcome her mental illness but in the end continuously coming back to them. It's almost like a sneeze that needs to come out and when it doesn't it feels weird and sometimes hurts. It doesn't mean she's any less or more than others this is just something different about her that she can't control.]]> 2018-08-28 16:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/275952016 andres_lara78 https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/275959402 In Star Wars the force awakens there is a new villain, Kylo Ren, who claims to continue what his grandfather, Darth Vader, started. The movie portrays Kylo Ren as an insecure, conflicted, and temperamental young man. He is constantly throwing destructive tantrums and has a somewhat borderline personality disorder. The newest Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi, has shown him trying to change but, like Ava in Turtles all the way down, it's something not easily controlled.]]> 2018-08-28 16:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/275959402 andres_lara78 https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276101997 Alice In Wonderland is a story of a girl with a very peculiar imagination. While the story never directly says it, Alice shows a lot of symptoms of schizophrenia. The little girl constantly deprives herself from reality. She jumbles up her thoughts and hallucinates the most unimaginable. Of course she would like to pay attention to her reading but she just can't focus and go into that mindset while she feels she has lost touch with reality.]]> 2018-08-29 02:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276101997 andres_lara78 https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276109217 The song "Monster" is about a man who just wants to fit in but can't because he feels something inside of him is keeping him from being like everyone else. Right off the back once the song starts you here him say things like, "Just wanted to fit in," or, "Just wouldn't settle in," because he could never find where he belonged. He constantly repeats himself saying "It keeps getting stronger," explaining how much he wants to control it but it's getting harder and harder with each day and it's not something he can sleep off.]]> 2018-08-29 03:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276109217 andres_lara78 https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276112484 World War Me is a man talking about how he is helpless and is in a constant battle with himself. He repeats himself being his only enemy and how he dislikes what he's become. In the end he feels the only option is to surrender to himself.]]> 2018-08-29 03:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276112484 andres_lara78 https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276115385 Howie Mandel is a judge on Americas Got Talent and host of Deal or No Deal. He is also widely known for being a comedian and his role in Bobby's world. He has made a big name for himself but one thing that is also very well known about Howie is his OCD. Howie is always having a difficult time dealing with his OCD but he obviously hasn't let that change wether or not he can be famous or not.]]> 2018-08-29 04:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276115385 andres_lara78 https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276117454 A book with the same theme as Turtles All the Way Down is Mosquitoland. Mim is a girl who suffers from anxiety. She describes her doctors and various treatments and how hard things like this are to deal for some people.]]> 2018-08-29 04:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276117454 andres_lara78 https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276118167 The Black Swan is about a girl who deals with anxiety. She has trouble throughout the film and continuously has to work with it and grow. Like Turtles All The Way Down, this movie shows that mental illness is something that is hard to deal with for some people and everyone needs to understand that.]]> 2018-08-29 04:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/andres_lara78/8p0wo9o62iaw/wish/276118167