Being in a state of constant excitement and overreaction. People suffering from mania often exhibit abnormal behaviors such as extreme conceitedness, excessive self-esteem, high energy, increased speech, and increased activity. In more severe cases, hallucinations, delusions and other psychotic symptoms may occur. Mania is an episodic mental illness that lasts for at least a week, and most patients tend to have recurring episodes that last for at least a week. It should be noted that when the disease occurs, changes in the surrounding environment are likely to affect the patient's mood.
Russell Crowe, the Oscar-winning actor for "Gladiator", is a typical manic patient in real life. He is arrogant and extremely self-centered. Hollywood insiders call him "the most incompetent man." Tamed star. In 2002, a producer cut out half of Crowe's acceptance speech for a film award in the UK, so he beat him up backstage. In 2003, he suddenly attacked his bodyguard. He even imitated Tyson and bit off a small piece of the bodyguard's ear. Chen Xiaochun also had similar manic symptoms. He once beat up a tabloid reporter who wanted to secretly film himself in his garage, and he also appeared on several occasions. A month later, Catherine Zeta-Jones broke another reporter's camera. She suffered from mania after her husband, Michael Douglas, was diagnosed with throat cancer. Her symptoms include persistent excitement, hallucinations, and being unable to sleep all night long. After Douglas's tumor was successfully removed, her condition gradually improved.
Movie Character Analysis
1. Sandino Corleone (Sonny): Either let me beat you. Either you, shoot me to death
(Played by: James Caan, "The Godfather" Director: Francis Ford Coppola)
At the wedding of my sister Connie In the film, Sonny, the eldest son of Godfather Vito Corleone, spat at the FBI outside his yard; faced the gossiping paparazzi, he broke his camera without saying a word, and then threw down a few banknotes in a cool manner; Reply At the wedding, he has sex with the bridesmaids unscrupulously. His temperamental, impulsive, brutal and irritable character is evident. Whether facing his enemies or his family, the conceited Sonny is always in a state of excitement.
The hot-tempered Sonny is always complaining about everything around him, and he always overreacts to some trivial matters. It is precisely because of his irritable personality and reckless way of doing things that the Corleone family is in trouble. Crisis and decline. The thoughtless remarks during the negotiations made the Mexican-born black boss Sollazo see the flaw. After that, the godfather was assassinated, and his younger brother Mike had to get involved in the family affairs after learning that his father had been assassinated. After hearing the news, he lost his mind and was at a loss for a while. When he saw his sister Connie being beaten with a bruised nose and face, Sonny rushed to teach his incompetent brother-in-law a lesson without any hesitation. Although he promised Connie that he would not teach him a lesson, he still ignored it. He beat him half to death. His manic personality made him deal with things without thinking. Although he was kind and straightforward, he was careless and foolhardy. Godfather Vito Corleone once warned Sonny: Don't let it happen. The enemy knows what he is thinking, and a man must not be careless. But Sonny did not realize the truth in his father's words. On the way to vent his anger for his sister Connie again, he fell into the trap of his brother-in-law and the enemies, and died in a toll. Station. The shooting of Sonny cost $100,000. Such a large investment is worthy of Sonny's fiery temper.
2. Jake LaMotta: Got it. The boxing ring is still crazy
(Played by: Robert De Niro, "Raging Bull" director: Martin Scorsese)
Boxer Jake LaMotta He showed his due fighting spirit in the boxing ring, but in real life, he was always in a state of excitement. Because the referee changed the decision of the game he actually won, he vented all his anger on his wife. For a piece of steak, he suddenly overturned the table at home, had a big fight with his wife, and vowed to kill her. The neighbor downstairs complained that it was too noisy. Instead of apologizing, he cursed and wanted to rush down and beat the neighbor to vent his anger.
After getting acquainted with the beautiful Vicky, he became insane for a time and always suspected that his brother Joey LaMotta was having an affair with Vicky. In fact, Vicky had nothing to do with Joey at all, and LaMotta's unreasonable suspicion drove Vicky crazy. During a serious quarrel, in order to stimulate her husband LaMotta, Vicky lied about having an affair with Joey and angrily said to LaMotta: "I gave your brother a blowjob"! LaMotta instantly became confused again. Becoming manic, he rushed into Joey's house and beat him and Vicky who was trying to stop the fight. The relationship between the two brothers was completely broken here. After quitting the boxing ring and going to jail, he was still energetic. In the cell, he went crazy again, punched the hard wall with his bare hands, and said: "They all say I am a beast, but I am actually It’s not that bad.” While venting all his grievances, this was actually a way for LaMotta to redeem himself after being separated from his family. He began to understand that his irritable, simple and self-destructive character was the root of all this.
3. Stan: The most artistic lunatic
(Played by: Gary Oldman, "The Killer Is Not So Cold" Director: Luc Besson)
Stan's job is to boycott drugs and catch drug dealers, but his own drug use is full of artistic sense. He is energetic and always in a state of high excitement, and he always overreacts to things that may seem trivial to ordinary people. As a lover of Beethoven, he used music and drugs to help him hallucinate, making every move he made aesthetically pleasing. In Gary Oldman's weird acting career, this perverse and violent image is undoubtedly the pinnacle of performance. When Sheriff Stan was listening to Beethoven alone, his subordinates did not dare to speak loudly. They kept silent to the boss because they knew that he was using music to calm themselves and offset their inner restlessness. But once the boss was disturbed, He will immediately turn into an extremely neurotic and crazy monster.
Chief Stan’s drug-taking posture is indeed very ecstatic: he puts the drug (Prozac, an oral antidepressant and mania drug) into his mouth, leans back nearly 90 degrees, and then looks ferocious, Trembling all over. This set of coherent and elegant free exercise movements is actually quite joyful, but his subsequent dialogue suddenly made the scene awkward: "I like the moment of tranquility before the storm, which reminds me of Beethoven." Then he uttered an analysis of Beethoven. Finn's music, while holding a Lyft to rob Matilda (played by Natalie Portman)'s family. And she killed her whole family just because she lost a few packages of drugs. After the shootout, he found that his suit was scratched by bullets, and he suddenly got mad and shot several times at the body. At the end of the film, in the public toilet, he became eccentric and manic again, first taking drugs and then trying to kill Matilda. Brother Stan's illness recurred so repeatedly that little Matilda, who was determined to be a killer to seek revenge for her family, was so frightened that she forgot what she was supposed to do.
Causes and treatments of the disease
Mania is usually triggered by adverse life events and environments, such as unemployment, breakup, poor family relationships, and long-term highly stressful living conditions. At the same time, a susceptibility caused by genetic factors will promote the onset of mania under the catalysis of certain environmental factors.
Mania is usually treated with medication or electrotherapy; psychotherapy is less commonly used. Mood stabilizers are the main drugs for the treatment of mania. On the basis of mood stabilizers, other drugs can be combined according to the needs of the condition. If drug treatment has little effect, psychological treatment can be added on top of it. Identify and improve patients' adverse cognitive, emotional and behavioral patterns, provide crisis intervention, and disseminate disease knowledge to patients and their families to improve treatment efficacy, improve social adaptability and social functions, improve compliance, and reduce recurrence.