Elizabeth Blue

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Underlying message that people with mental illnesses should be treated by medical professionals. Also conveys the idea that most people, whether they're mentally unstable or not, want to feel loved and protected by someone else. Compassion is a theme.

There aren't many media representations of characters with mental illnesses, so this film is unique in that the main character is living with schizophrenia, anxiety, and OCD. But there are no overtly positive role models besides the psychiatrist, who truly wants to help Elizabeth stop hallucinating and live in reality.

Elizabeth hears voices in her head that periodically tell her to end her misery and commit suicide. A destructive voice is personified by a man who appears to command her to kill herself. She responds to it by flailing around. In one scene, her boyfriend slaps her to get her out of an obsessive reverie. It seems out of necessity rather than anger, but it's still upsetting.

Elizabeth and Grant live together, kiss, sleep next to each other, see each other undressed (like when she's taking a bath), and take a shower together, but no nudity is shown, and there are no sex scenes.

Elizabeth is on a variety of prescription drugs. Her psychiatrist goes over her treatment plan and dosages at every therapy session.