I don't know how many of you out there watch the TV series HOMELAND on Showtime. My
wife and I have watched it since it first started. It is a great show that we like to watch together.
You can read the article, but Clair Danes, a CIA agent (who plays Carrie Mathison) has a bipolar disorder.
She plays the part very well.
Read if you are interested...
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Study Finds 1 in 5 Americans Lives With a Mental Illness
Almost 44 million adults experienced a mental illness last year.
In the hit series Homeland, Claire Danes plays Carrie Mathison, a high-functioning, quick-on-her-feet CIA agent who also has bipolar disorder. She initially hides her mental illness from her coworkers, but as the series progresses, she is forced to reveal her secret and cope with its implications. Spoiler alert: In this week’s episode, for example, Mathison learned that she was drugged by someone working with Pakistan’s intelligence service who swapped out her bipolar medication for pills that make her hallucinate.
Aside from the espionage and near-death experiences she frequently encounters, Mathison’s situation isn’t much different from that of many Americans diagnosed with mental illness, who lead full and productive lives with their condition. “I think a lot of people think of mental illness as the disheveled homeless man, or the person walking down the street [talking] to themselves, but it’s not. It’s your friend, it’s your neighbor, it’s the person down the street,” says Peter Delany, Ph.D., director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. “It’s not just a few people, it’s a lot of people, and they struggle.”
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