
It's a Wonderful Life: Persistent Depressive Disorder, Anxiety, and Existentialism
Popcorn Psychology
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The Story of George the Hero
I think we all have roles that we fall into as kids within our families or within our communities. And depending on how are the rest of our life goes, that can either remain a positive for us or it can kind of get morphed and perverted. Like his mom, it feels like everyone also in this movie is mom included. He likes being this part, even though he has other plans that they all verbalize at one point. They know that they're asking him to do something he doesn't want to do. There's also seems to be this weird thing of like, this is George's thing. You know, like it doesn't seem like anyone's really distressed that this is
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