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I've noticed since this film came out that there's a lot of psychiatric labels getting thrown around about Christine Chubbuck, mostly from people who are using the DSM-5 handbook to try to find some sort of inherited illness to blame her actions on, especially bipolar, aspberger's and manic depression. This is the way we try to understand things like this in modern society. We try to find a chemical imbalance, we suggest that if she were medicated the outcome all would've been different, we suggest that she was born with a mental problem that drove her to her actions... but I think Christine was just an unfortunate product of her environment. She was definitely depressed, I don't think anybody can doubt that after what she did on live television. …show more content…
We are too quick to label, misdiagnose and medicate the mentally ill. Maybe Christine just wanted a person to tell her, "I understand you and we can get through this together." There's such a stigma around mental illness that tells us "it's all in their heads, it's a chemical imbalance, pills and drugs will cure it all". We want to hide it away, not change the negativity in the world. As this film displays, Christine just wanted to bring a little cheerfulness into the world and she was told, "if it bleeds, it leads". She was sounding an alarm, we just didn't hear it in time. In 2017, the digital age, we feed off of negativity and tragedy, from exploitative talk shows to alarmist internet news. Social media has made it even easier for people to exploit the nice and innocent and naive. From Amanda Todd to internet trolling, negativity is thriving now more than ever - so we all need to learn from Christine Chubbuck, even if it's difficult to come to terms with why she would do such a thing. I am no expert on her, I never knew her, but anybody who views this film will realize that the real Christine Chubbuck had something to

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