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Silver Linings Playbook Related To Psychology
Silver Linings playbook is a movie about a man named Pat who finds his wife cheating on him and beats the man almost to death, he also finds out he has been suffering from bipolar disorder which then leads him to be in a mental facility. He then meets a friends sister in law Tiffany who lost her husband and suffers from depression with manic episodes. Tiffany promises to help Pat get his wife back (that he if fixated on). Tiffany and Pat create this unconventional friendship but in the end, end up falling in love and begin to heal their painful past together.
Pat is the lead male character, he completely spirals out of control after finding his wife with another man, he beats the man nearly to death and is forced by the courts to go to a mental

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