{"id":82300,"date":"2016-06-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=82300"},"modified":"2016-06-21T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:21:54","slug":"mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"These TV Shows Teach Us About Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mental health issues can be difficult to talk about — both in real life and on TV. This is partially due to how mental health disorders are portrayed in the media as it is quite\u00a0often exaggerated or inaccurately portrayed.<\/p>\n

However, there are a few shows that have done a great job at tackling these sensitive issues and\u00a0have shed a raw, authentic light on mental health conditions. We recommend checking out the TV shows below!<\/p>\n

\"10986508_703492736446987_4903762686749956968_n\"<\/a>Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/strong>
\nRebecca Bunch is a lawyer at a prestigious firm in Manhattan who trades the city life for a suburban one outside Los Angeles. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/em> uses a musical format to discuss\u00a0the complexities of anxiety and depression — we love how open and real the show gets with these issues. Producer\u00a0Rachel Bloom and a few of the\u00a0writers of the show have personally suffered from such issues, as well.<\/p>\n

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\"11046504_905126332936653_5750623827048043171_n\"<\/a>BoJack Horseman<\/strong>
\nWhile this animated Netflix series doesn\u2019t immediately scream depression, that\u2019s sort of the point. It\u2019s a bright, hilarious cartoon about a washed up celebrity trying to make a comeback — so it’s not\u00a0quite as heavy. BoJack\u2019s depression acts more as a large hurdle he attempts to overcome, rather than a negative\u00a0personality trait. The show can get dark, but it\u2019s an honest story that accurately portrays how it feels to be living in a constant state of depression and loneliness.<\/p>\n

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\"12191379_916014635142803_2099450061413095630_o\"<\/a>Girls<\/strong>
\nIs there anything Lena Dunham isn’t good at? In Girls<\/em>, Dunham\u2019s character Hannah Horvath struggles with OCD and the show does a great\u00a0job at depicting the anxious, pervasive, and paralyzing affects OCD can have on a person. Instead of glamorizing the issue or making it a superpower (as other shows have),\u00a0Girls<\/em> successfully portrays the illness as a constant struggle, and shows Hannah progressing and overcoming her disorder.<\/p>\n

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\"250036_10150595846775252_6958300_n\"<\/a>United States of Tara<\/strong>
\nYou should binge-watch United States of Tara<\/i> on Netflix\u00a0if you want to learn about a mental health issue we don\u2019t hear much about. The show centers on Tara Gregson, a suburban housewife and mom living with dissociative identity disorder, a condition that causes her to shift between multiple identities. The show presents differing views on the illness (some professionals don\u2019t believe it exists, whereas others think it’s over diagnosed) through Tara\u2019s family and, mixed with a bit of comedy, it\u2019s definitely educational for those who don\u2019t know too much about the disorder.<\/p>\n

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\"12792137_10153578438759773_1264267194789909328_o\"<\/a>Nurse Jackie<\/strong>
\nHere’s another show you\u00a0can binge watch on Netflix! Nurse Jackie<\/em> follows the life of emergency room nurse, Jackie Peyton, as she cares for patients while struggling with a Vicodin and Adderall addiction to get her through her high-stress shifts. The show is noted as one of the best portrayals of what it\u2019s like to struggle with addiction because they drew from real, personal experiences — one of the\u00a0creators admitted to having struggled with alcohol addiction in the past.<\/p>\n

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