Yesterday, we began watching the movie Words on Bathroom Walls. Adam is in his senior year of high school. He dreams of going to culinary school because he has a passion for cooking, but he has a big problem....he has schizophrenia. This takes a turn for the worse when he begins hearing voices in chemistry class and pours acid on his friend Todd's arm. This gets him kicked out of high school. His mother tries so hard to find ways to help him and looks for many solutions. She finally finds a medication that may help him. She and her boyfriend Paul also enroll him in a local Catholic school, but he must stay in good condition to stay there. He meets Maya, a brilliant girl who is going to be valedictorian, or the person with the highest grades in class when he discovers she has a side hustle of making money helping students with homework. She thinks he is weird but harmless.
This movie has many interesting themes we can discuss.
1. How do schools deal with children or young people with mental illness issues like Adam in your country (if you know)? If you don't know, how do you imagine they would deal with this?
2. Imagine being Adam's mother and your child has an illness like this. How would you deal with such a situation?
3. Adam mentions that having mental illness does not mean you are the illness itself. What does he mean by this?
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