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It's a Wonderful Life: Persistent Depressive Disorder, Anxiety, and Existentialism

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The Importance of Fantasy

"This is like Batman is suicide all over," he says of the movie. "I just really shit on, you all just really get shit on believing that that movie is free." Ben Affleck plays a man with recurrent major depressive disorder who has to give up his life for someone else's happiness. The film was directed by Tom Hanks and co-written by Aaron Sorkin.

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