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Trainer warning.
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This episode contains discussion about death and abuse.
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Listener discussion is advised.
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There is a psychopath.
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There is no associate.
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There is a psychopath.
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There is an associate.
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Before we get into the nitty-and-gritty.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Split Screen.
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My name is Kyle Clark.
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And I'm Angelica Clark.
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And this is a podcast where we do deep dives into the minds and lives of horror movie villains, suspense thrillers, and true crime stories.
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And I am a licensed clinical therapist, and I will be essentially psychoanalyzing the main character or characters of whatever movie, book, or TV show we are discussing.
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And today, we are gonna open with a cold case on the most notorious psychiatric facility in cinematic history.
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Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane is it's situated on the storm-swept, isolated rock known as Shutter Island.
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So let me paint a picture for you.
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It's 1954.
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U.S.
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Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner Chuck step off the ferry into the wall of a gathering tempest.
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Their mission seems straightforward.
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Trace a patient, Rachel Salando, who vanished from a locked room inside a fortress-like asylum.
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But from the moment Teddy sets foot on the island, the narrative fractures.
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Dr.
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John Cauley, the head psychiatrist, talks of progressive therapy, while the dark gothic architecture of Ward C speaks to something far older and far more sinister.
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Rumors circulate about radical lobotomies, government-funded mind control experiments, and a shadowy Nazi doctors operating out of the island's ancient Civil War lighthouse.
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The primary suspect, Rachel Salando, left behind a single cryptic clue written on a scrap of paper.
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The Law of Four?
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Who is 67?
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And today we're going to be covering Martin Scorsese's 2010 Shutter Island.
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So, what did you think?
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I love this movie.
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Like I've seen it, we've both seen it several times.
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And I will tell you, up until watching it the other night, I have always felt like Teddy goes to this island perfectly sane and comes and doesn't leave because the island makes him crazy.
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I have always thought that I was like, I'm gonna die on this hill with the cigarettes they were giving him, with the pills they were giving him, all the things that kept happening.
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I was like, oh, he's fine, but he is going he this island's making him crazy.
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And then we watched it the other night, turned on my therapist cap, and I know for a fact now that's not the case.
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Well, and let me just kind of add too, like, yeah, we have seen this movie on multiple occasions.
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Dozens of dozen.
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And I agree.
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And it's almost kind of like almost wishful thinking, like I wanted it to not be real for him, but then it's still kind of awful to think that too, because if it is happening to this poor US Marshal, then they're just messing with a a a good human being.
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But and like you said, watching it again with your therapist cap on, but now with my lens as how I see movies now, it completely blew my mind yet again.
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And we like we've seen this movie, so it's like it was so refreshing to be able to watch it again and have that experience.
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Well, not only that, but I literally said, I'm like, how is it that up until this point Leo still hadn't gotten an Oscar?
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You know what I mean?
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Like he didn't he still hadn't gotten one at this point.
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So and the the rest of the cast for this movie was was picked perfectly.
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And I mean, but it's Martin Scorsese, so I mean he knows what he's doing.
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That is absolutely true.
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Um but let's kinda not necessarily start from the beginning because I mean this movie has been out quite some time and it's probably in a lot of people's horror rotation for Halloween season.
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But there are little things throughout the entire film that if you're not paying attention, they'll pass by you.
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It's almost like an A24 film.
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Oh, yeah, for sure.
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And let's kind of get into some of those, especially um a lot of the Easter eggs leading up to certain events.
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So for the sake of time, we are not going to be able to go through every single Easter egg in this movie.
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I just want to put that out now.
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But the thing is, is you wouldn't even know there are Easter eggs unless you research it.
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But I wanted the first thing I want to touch on the law of four.
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Who
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is 67?
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Okay.
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Law of four in the movie.
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You have Teddy Daniels, you have Andrew Latis, you have his wife Dolores.
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I can't remember what her maiden last name is, and then you have Rachel Solando, right?
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Yeah.
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The law of four is that all four of those names are an anagram.
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So, like Andrew Latis is his real name, right?
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But he goes by Teddy Daniels.
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Those two names can be interchangeable.
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Like you rearrange the letters around, Teddy Daniels is Andrew Latis, which we know that.
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Rachel Solondo and Dolores with her maiden name, which was his wife, are also an anagram.
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So that's what the law of four is.
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And then, of course, we find out that 67, he is the 67th patient that he is trying to find.
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As Teddy, he's looking for Andrew Latis.
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Well, he's looking for himself.
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So that part, I immediately was like, I gotta find out what that means.
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And the law of four is the anagram for the four names, which are the names of him and his wife and their alters, which I thought was really cool.
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Yeah, and like when you're really kind of analyzing what um is even being talked about, especially when they're going through like certain therapies, and the therapy that um Andrew Latis is going through is like the most severe type of like exposure therapy kind of situation.
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And it in my opinion, when we get closer to the end of this conversation, we'll kind of disclose um a little bit on our thoughts on what happened there at the end.
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Um, but there's almost certain points where he is lucid, and he even has uh very vivid flashbacks of things that he has seen, and so there's there's obviously trauma there as we go into why he is the 67th patient and what he did, and they even had said multiple times throughout the film, you know, this is the most dangerous patient.
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And another kind of quick Easter egg, if you're watching the movie, when they step off the ferry, the guards are all super tense.
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Yes, they have their guns out, they're ready to go, and he even acknowledges like why your boy is so tense or ready to go, or whatever he said specifically.
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And it's because he is dangerous, the dangerous one.
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Well, I also want to point out another anagram.
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I don't know if you remember me talking about this, but the title of the movie itself, Shutter Island, is an anagram for truths and lies and truths slash denials.
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That's what the the movie is, Shutter Island, which blew my mind.
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Thought it was absolutely insane.
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Yeah, it changes the the overall kind of almost look or the aesthetic of the film itself when you kind of really understand that what you're watching is somebody going through therapy, you're not actually watching somebody getting taken away from their normal life and being thrown in this situation and being told that they were crazy just to make things go away.
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And lobotomies were a big thing back then, and a lot of doctors were practicing them not knowing the real ramifications of the outcome of most, if not all, of their patients.
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Which is why they stopped them what in like the 60s, I think is what we found out 60s, 70s, something like that.
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Yeah, like some somewhere around in there.
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Well, another thing that you had pointed out, and this is I thought was this is another Easter egg.
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There's actually two.
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This is another thing that I always thought contributed to his almost psychosis-like state was him borrowing cigarettes from people.
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But and you were you were even like, look, he's obviously borrowing cigarettes because he can't have his own, because he's a patient.
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Yeah, like why would you hop on this ferry knowing you're gonna go investigate this place?
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If you smoke and not have a pack of cigarettes, and not bring a pack of smokes with you.
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Because he can't, because he's a patient, can't have his own cigarettes.
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But another thing that you also pointed out with your beautiful brown eyes is that Chuck, which is played by Mark Ruffalo, um, whenever they ask to give up their guns because they can't have their firearms on the island, he has a hard time getting his off of the holster.
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And he's supposed to be a trained marshal.
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Yeah, and when uh uh Teddy finally gives his up, he immediately as quickly as it would be just to pull a pin out of your pocket, just blah bam, there it goes.
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And yeah, he struggled with it.
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Well, and like Teddy was a US Marshal and he was in the military, whereas Chuck was just a psychiatrist, so of course he's not gonna know how to handle a gun.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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So you also notice that Teddy wears the same tie throughout the entire movie, and then you come to find out his wife gave him that tie, even though he hates the tie because it it's kind
of it's very sweet, but also if you look at it from a psychological perspective, he wears the tie because his wife gave it to him, but it's also almost like showing that he refuses to accept what actually happened, and he refuses to move on.
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That's why he's still wearing the tie.
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And for those who have not seen Shutter Island, spoiler alert, for those who haven't seen the movie, it's over a decade old, so we're about to just we're gonna lay it down for you.
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Okay.
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Um, Teddy comes home, or Andrew comes home from work, and his wife, played by Michelle Williams, which not the not the tennis player, Michelle Williams, obviously.
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He comes home, it's very quiet, and his wife is just sitting on their porch swing out in the backyard.
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And he starts talking to her, she's all wet, and he starts asking where the kids are.
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Well, it's very clear that his wife had some sort of we'll call it a mental health crisis.
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Okay, she drowned their children in their pond behind the house, and then he shoots her because of that.
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So that is what landed him in Ashcliffe was the trauma from that, but he also had pre-existing trauma from being in World War II and fighting the Nazis.
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So you can definitely tell, and like the entire movie, the whole point of this movie is to not only to find this missing patient, but he's also looking for the man who supposedly set their apartment or their house on fire and killed his wife because he cannot accept the reality of what happened.
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And that's the whole point of this of the movie is they are trying to play out his little scenario to see if it brings him back to reality.
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Yeah, and he he blamed the maintenance guy as to why their apartment set on fire when in reality she set it on fire to unalive herself.
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And that was red flag number one, that something drastic was was going to happen at some point.
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Um, it was not very clear on if there were kids involved at that point in time.
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I do not think so.
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But when he's already trying to disassociate, even in that state, he was already on the verge of of slipping and then dragging his three kids out of the lagoon in their backyard.
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He and he even like lays them out like he would if they were soldiers.
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And which I want to also point out when they're talking about Rachel Solando, they talk about how her husband um died in combat and her children died.
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Right?
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I think I mean Teddy So at this point we know after watching the movie, we know Rachel Solondo is not a real person.
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She is the anagram for his wife.
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And he technically, I guess you if you really wanted to spin it this way, you could say that he did die in combat.
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Part of him did.
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The old Teddy did, the old Andrew did.
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Before he came, you know, before he went, he was a completely different person than he came back.
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And I mean, even throughout the entire movie, you see awful flashbacks of him just walking through the concentration camps and him, you know, shooting German soldiers and just terrible, terrible things.
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But he's also what you think he's seeing is a Jewish girl who is saying, You could have helped me.
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You could have stopped it, but in reality you're seeing his daughter.
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Yeah.
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Which terrible, terrible, terrible.
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Um another thing that I noticed in the movie differently this time than the first several times we've watched it.
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You know, he obviously is ill.
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He's seasick, and then throughout the whole movie he's getting migraines, you know, he's sweating really bad, he's agitated, they keep giving him an aspirin.
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Here's an aspirin, here's an aspirin.
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And I'm like, they're giving this man psych meds without him knowing when I first watched this a few times.
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But come to find out, they're giving him an aspirin because he's experiencing withdrawal symptoms.
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Yeah.
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Because in order to play out his whole fantasy, we'll call it, they have to take him off his psych meds.
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Yeah, he has to be able to go full-blown psychosis to be able to work through that.
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They needed to get it out somehow.
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Like, there's even one part of the movie I never caught this before, and I'm not sure how I didn't, but he's interviewing people trying to find out who knows Rachel Solando.
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And there's an older woman that he interviews.
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I can't remember what her name is.
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Um, but she asks for a glass of water, and you see someone physically give her a glass of water, but then whenever she goes to take a drink, there's nothing in her hand.
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And I'm like, oh, that's bad filming.
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That was done intentionally.
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Yeah, because you even see her put the glass down and it's empty.
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Yeah.
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So
that is gonna be my segue into one of the themes of the movie.
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There are two themes.
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Two big ones water and fire.
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So in the beginning, whenever Taddy and Tuck are on the boat, and he is violently throwing up we think is seasickness.
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He has an aversion to water.
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That's why the entire time it's storming like crazy.
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He wakes up with the the roof leaking.
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Um, anytime he uh you know sees his wife, she's wet and he's wondering why she's wet.
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The glass of water where he doesn't actually see her drink the water, all of these are because he has an aversion to water because that is where his trauma stems from.
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Is because his children were drowned.
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And then you notice on the opposite side another theme of fire, where when he's with his wife, even in their burning apartment building in one of his dreams, he's calm, he's happy, he feels comfortable because of the fire.
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Um because the fire brings him some sort of warmth, control, it's the opposite of water.
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Like that, you know, you even could bring in he feels calm whenever he lights a cigarette.
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Or they light a match, or he has those dreams with his wife, you know.
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And then any time that there's water involved, he's anxious, he's scared, he's irritable, he has an aversion, and those two things are important.
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Like you would not catch that normally unless you're really looking into it.
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But it's there, like everything that's in this movie is put there for a reason.
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And it's I think it's a masterpiece.
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I think it's amazing because it's like you think these small things that are in the movie don't matter, but every single tiny little detail down to how it looks, how Ashcliffe looks when you get there, and how it looks when he leaves, completely different.
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Yeah, because everything was being exacerbated by his psychosis, and like even like with this storm, just a when you get to the end of the film and he's looking outside, it's clear skies, the grounds are beautiful, it's very well kept.
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And when he got there, it looked like so a little quick sidebar.
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When I watched this film, there there was a video game that I played back in the day called The Suffering, and you play a patient in an asylum trying to get back to your wife and your kid, and it w it kind of for some reason makes me think of that, and it's like this run-down place where the you know the roof is leaking, and it doesn't look it is always just gloomy until the end where everything's beautiful and it's like it's you know, fire is also cleansing, and he needed to I think he needed to hold on to that to help him let go of certain things because in my opinion, when you get to the end of this film, Teddy Daniels is gone.
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Yeah, and who we're seeing is Andrew Leidis, and I think the therapy worked for him, it just couldn't fix the way he felt.
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Yeah.
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So at the very end, you're pretty upset because you're like, awesome, he made a breakthrough, they're not gonna lobotomize him, he's doing great.
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And then he's he calls a psychiatrist Chuck.
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But there is a specific line that he says, and that kind of makes you think, right?
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He's like, I would rather something I would rather die as a good man than live as a bad one.
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Something along those lines.
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And at the very end of the movie, he is absolutely lucid.
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He knows what's going on, he knows everything is a delusion, he knows that he's a patient in a mental hospital, he knows he's not a U.S.
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marshal anymore, he knows he killed his wife, he knows his wife killed his kids.
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He knows all of this.
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But because that became a reality for him, a true reality, even though he knew what the outcome would be if he did not remember and he didn't stay elucid, he chooses to revert so that he can get lobotomized, so that he can not remember his trauma.
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You can even see Chuck whenever he says the line about, you know, I'd rather die a good man than to live as a bad one.
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Chuck looks at him as he's walking away, like, wait, what the hell?
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What's going on?
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Wait a minute.
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Does he is he lucid?
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Like the look on his face, you can tell that the psychiatrist is like, oh shit, what's happening?
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But he can't do anything about it.
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Yeah, and like you can it's even more like apparent what's going on when he just willingly walks away with them.
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Knows exactly he's even walking in front of them, leading where they're going.
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And yeah, I think he accepted what was going on and knew this was going to be the the way to get out of it.
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So that being said, let's let's talk about Andrew for a second.
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What's going on with Andrew?
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Is he psychotic?
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Does he have a personality disorder?
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Is he
bipolar?
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Is he depressed?
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Any of these things could be the case.
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Um however, I this is probably the easiest and strongest case of PTSD.
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Easiest case of PTSD I've ever seen.
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Okay.
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Um, which he already had a PTSD before his wife did what she did because of the war.
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You see that, like we've talked about.
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Now some people might ask, okay, well then how do you you know how do you explain his delusions or what could be considered psychosis?
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How do you explain that?
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Dissociation.
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Dissociation is a big part of PTSD.
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So according to the DSM post-traumatic stress disorder, um, there's a lot that goes into diagnosing PTSD.
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Like people throw the word PTA or the the word PTSD around all the time.
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It's like people throw the word bipolar around, oh I'm so bipolar, or oh, I'm OCD, or oh, I've got PTSD.
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To actually have true diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, you have to meet several different criteria.
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Are you interested to hear the exact criteria that you need to meet PTSD diagnosis according to the DSM?
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I am absolutely ready, and to be quite honest with you, some of these might sound familiar to me.
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I'm sure they will.
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They sound familiar to me as well.
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Okay.
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So applies to adults, adolescents, and children older than six years.
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So there are technically.
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So the way that the DSM does it, if anybody's never seen the DSM, it's it's almost like you're going back to elementary school days where you have an it's an outline form, right?
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So you know the very first one you do is a capital A, and then you write that, and then you have one through three or whatever to kind of subcategorize that.
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So category A, exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in one or more of the following ways.
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Directly experiencing the traumatic event.
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So he hits that one, but also you have to witness, you can learn that a traumatic event happened to someone that you love, um, experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to traumas, any of those things.
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Honestly, he has all of those things.
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You need one.
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So, category B, presence of one or more of the following intrusion symptoms.
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So, this is um things like you know, recurrent nightmares or distressing memories, recurrent dreams in which the content and/or affect of the dream are related to the traumatic event, dissociative reactions.
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So this would be flashbacks, um, you know, reactions may occur on like a continuum with most extreme expression being a complete loss of awareness and um, or like of present surroundings.
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So I think he hits he hits honestly all of those as well.
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But for him, I think he has the nightmares, we see that, but he also has flashbacks.
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Walking through the asylum, he has flashbacks, and he has the dissociation, which is his, I think his dissociation comes out as delusion.
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So when they refer to, oh, it's just a delusion, it's a delusion, it's a delusion, I don't think it's a true delusion like you would see in somebody who has delusional disorder or another another psychotic disorder.
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But you gotta think too, this is the 1950s.
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If someone, most people back then, they classified as just schizophrenic or crazy.
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Because it's all they knew, because they didn't have the they didn't have the knowledge to dig deeper.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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So he already hits both of those criteria.
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So this is also includes um intense or prolonged psychological distress and physiological reactions, which he has those as well.
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So far, he hitting them all.
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Then you have category C, which is um avoidance.
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So you either have to avoid, like some people use alcohol or drugs to avoid distressing memories or triggers, or some people avoid external reminders.
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They won't go to certain streets, they won't go to certain parts of town because they avoid where their trauma came from.
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So one of those has to be present.
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And he, I don't know if you caught this, he's an alcoholic.
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Yep, he's a recovering alcoholic.
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So I think for him, in the beginning, before he's in the asylum, that was his avoidance criteria.
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But now I think his avoidance also kind of goes into the dissociation.
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I think those two things are both working for him.
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Then you have the negative alterations in cognition and mood.
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So this would be the inability to remember certain aspects of the event.
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Um, exaggerated negative beliefs or expectations about others or
oneself.
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No one can be trusted, the world's bad, you know, I am bad, things like that.
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Persistent distorted cognitions about the cause or consequences of the traumatic event that lead to the individual that blame themselves or others.
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So this one he struggles with very badly.
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He's got that distorted cognition of everybody, it's everybody else's at fault because he will not take responsibility.
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That's why he creates Teddy Daniels, because he refuses to believe that, oh, I'm Andrew Latis and I'm responsible for what happened, right?
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Diminished interest or participation in significant activities, feelings of detachment or estrangement from others, persistent inability to experience positive emotions.
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So this is someone who just can't be happy no matter what they do.
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Um, they just have kind of that negative mood.
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You have to hit at least two of those.
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And he did.
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He's hit two of those.
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Marked all this is um E category, marked alterations and arousal and reactivity associated with the traumatic events.
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So this would be the um anything that causes a physical reaction.
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So irritable behavior or like anger outbursts, this is where that would fall into that category.
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Reckless or self-destructive behavior, hypervigilance.
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So that's like walking on eggshells, looking at every corner, you know, you're very jumpy.
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Feel like people are watching you.
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That's why a lot of times people who are paranoid, you have to, especially they've experienced trauma.
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Sometimes their paranoia is not a delusion.
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Sometimes their paranoia is hypervigilance.
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So, um, problems with, you know, concentration, sleep disturbances.
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He obviously has a difficult time sleeping.
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Duration of the criteria or the the disturbance is more than one month.
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The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment.
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This is going to be in every single diagnosis in the DSM.
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This disturbance causes clinically significant distress.
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Because fun fact, let's say that he hits all of these things.
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But if he just says, you know, I have occasional nightmares, I have anger out burst, but it doesn't affect me at work, it doesn't affect me at home, I really live a mostly normal life, other than that, if there's no clinically, you know, I guess the way I'm trying to say this is if there is really no impairment, major impairment in his life, you can't diagnose it.
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So if someone has criteria for schizophrenia, let's say they hear voices and they, you know, they have delusions, but it's not really affecting their everyday life.
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I mean, you can't technically diagnose it.
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But he obviously it does affect him.
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And then the disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance.
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So that would be drugs, alcohol, things like that.
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Um, however, you can some diagnoses have what's called a specifier.
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So this one, if I were to put a diagnosis on Andrew Latis, Teddy Daniels, I would say he has PTSD with dissociative symptoms.
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So that with dissociative symptoms is a specifier.
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Not everybody has a specifier, but some of the other options are like with delayed expression.
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They used to call it complex PTSD if you had like multiple events throughout your life, but they don't call it that anymore.
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Complex PTSD no longer exists.
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So with him, the difficult thing I find with PTSD is that automatically, if someone is seeing things, hearing things, has some paranoia, people are like, oh, they're schizophrenic.
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Because technically in the DSM, it doesn't say anything about psychosis, like the word psychosis associated with PTSD.
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But it's like I've talked about before, any other therapist will die on this hill with me.
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I absolutely believe you can have psychotic symptoms with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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100% because it's not true psychosis.
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I think it would fit more into the category of, you know, dissociation or nightmares or flashbacks, things like that.
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So he 100% I think just with him seeing what he saw in the concentration camps, and then his wife doing what she did, and him having to kill his wife, this man was severely traumatized.
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And this was his way of pushing it back.
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Yeah, and in and it he was almost a victim of of time as well.
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Like in they didn't have the knowledge that we do now, and that knowledge still continues to grow and change and evolve as we start to learn how things are wired a certain way or working this direction.
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Well, another thing too is it wasn't always called PTSD.
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It used to be called shell shock syndrome because it
used to be just associated with veterans.
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So what they used to think is people only veterans could be traumatized, basically, was the mindset.
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It did not used to include physical abuse, sexual abuse, car accident, watching someone die, it didn't used to include those things.
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Because back again, back whenever they didn't have the knowledge that they have now, they thought only veterans could have significant trauma.
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So if someone was sexually assaulted, they can't have trauma from that.
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If someone's beat by their husband or beat by their wife, they can't have trauma from that.
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They're not a vet.
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So it used to be called shell shock syndrome.
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Until they realize, like, oh no, other people can have trauma as well.
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Yeah.
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Shell shock officially became PTSD in 1980 when the APA or the American Psychiatric Association, who wrote the DSM, added it to the third edition.
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So right now, just to put that into perspective, we are on the DSM, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual 5 TR.
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That's what we're on right now.
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This came out, so PTSD came out in the DSM 3.
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And the DSM 5 came out in 2013.
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And then the DSM 5 TR, which is just basically they just added and changed some verbiage.
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It wasn't enough to do a full like DSM 6, but it they did change a little bit to the DSM 5.
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That came out in 2022.
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It's 2026.
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Just if you really think about it, PTSD has really only existed, and I'm saying existed with quotation hands 46 years ago.
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Prior to that, shell shock.
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Crazy.
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So if you really think about it, if this was a true story, they probably, if I was a psychiatrist working with Teddy Daniels, I probably would think he was psychotic because PTSD was not a thing in 1954.
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Yeah, because it I mean you wouldn't study it as such because it wasn't taught in textbooks at that time.
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:40.800
I mean, it goes back to the witch trials.
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You know, you think, oh, these women are a witch, but in reality, they probably have some mental health issues.
00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:51.280
Or like now it's like, oh, this guy's psychotic, or this guy, you know, let's abotomize him because he needs help.
00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:55.840
Like, okay, well, he probably just needed some therapy to process his trauma.
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Yeah.
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And
you know, at one point they were almost handing out lobotomies, like they were handing out a prescription, and it became a normal practice for a little blink in history and what a horrific history that is.
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:18.239
Yeah, I mean, it it was like the, you know, if Oprah Winfrey was alive back then, you get a lobotomy, you get a lobotomy, everyone gets a lobotomy.
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Yeah.
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But I think it went from like burning witches at the stake to then it went to lobotomies.
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Like that's like the extreme, just one thing I will say, and this is what I tell my clients all the time: the only cure for PTSD is therapy.
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You can take all the medication in the world to help with your mood because a lot of times if you have PTSD, they will prescribe you an antidepressant or they'll prescribe you an anxiolytic, which in layman's terms is an anti-anxiety medication.
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Um, so they'll prescribe Xanax, they'll prescribe hydroxazine, Zoloft, Prozac, all of the mood medications to help with the symptoms of PTSD.
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But until you get to the root of it, which is the trauma itself, and you actually process that, you will never get better.
00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:13.440
And I will die on that hill.
00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:19.760
Like, it's because it's trauma basically alters your brain.
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.800
Like, I think it was like one of our first couple episodes.
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I actually posted on our Instagram a picture of a brain scan of like a normal brain versus a traumatized brain and how they actually light up differently.
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:37.119
So if you're interested in that just to see what I'm talking about, you can check it out on our Instagram.
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But yeah, basically comes down to Andrew is severely traumatized, and he is disso he dissociates because of that.
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And then in the end, he chooses a lobotomy so that he can forget because he does not want to face reality.
00:39:56.000 --> 00:40:23.840
Yeah, which I mean, even no matter which way you spin it, it still ends up being kind of a sad story, and just witnessing the way that this gentleman experienced his psychosis and being able to be able to see it as he saw it was kind of a rare experience into what some of these people may or may not be experiencing when they are having symptoms like this.
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:38.159
And even kind of understanding that it is supposed to be just this scary movie, well, um it's also Martin Scorsese, and it's not just something that's supposed to spook you, it's supposed to make you think as well.
00:40:38.800 --> 00:41:14.159
And it's also kind of refreshing when you look at it from that perspective as well, knowing that these medical doctors that seem to be these quacks throughout most of the film are actually legitimately there to protect him and just want him to get better and kind of makes you feel not against the societal norm of being afraid to go seek help when and you should never be afraid to ask for help in any aspect, especially when it comes to your mental or physical health.
00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:15.360
Yeah.
00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:28.639
I do want to say Dolores, his wife, obviously has severe bipolar disorder, and she killed her children out of psychosis during a manic episode.
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That is what extreme bipolar disorder looks like.
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:35.840
Or back then manic depressive is what they would call that.
00:41:36.159 --> 00:41:38.239
So she was already pretty sick.
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Yeah, and like that's kind of how it was in the beginning as well, like when she tried to unalive herself in the house, and it's like that was red flag number one, and that just was gonna escalate, especially when you're a victim of the time, and it's not like Andrew could have gotten her help or really understood he was too busy doing his US Marshall thing and drinking.
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:12.559
So, I mean, it's if you haven't seen the film, you definitely this one you need to go watch.
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:14.480
It's it's fantastic.
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:22.480
And like you said in the beginning, I I I don't know how it took Leo so long to get an Oscar.
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:34.480
This this would have been should have been his first, and it's it's it was a fun watch, especially looking at it the way that we do now.
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:39.679
Let's end this on a question, shall we?
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Let's do it.
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Which would be worse to live as a monster or to die as a good man.
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00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:59.840
And um, I hope everybody enjoyed our last episode on Falling Down.
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Another shout out to my brother Brandon Clark, who was the reason for that episode.
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And I had a lot of fun with that one, and hopefully you guys enjoyed this one.
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Thank you, everybody.