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I watched the whole scene on YouTube just now after reading your post, and I have to say that I was intrigued by the portrail, at first. Until Elliot and his mother were out on the beach and she started rambling on and on while building her sand castle, that was hard for me to take in. I don't know maybe if it is because I only base having Bi-Polar on my own actions or if it was just the sheer terror of just knowing that this woman was written as a character who has Bi-Polar and was never on any medication. It is just a little unsettling. Just because there are millions of people who watch that show, and they watch that scene, probably many of them not knowing much about Bi-Polar, and now they get this impression of it as being a loopy, self indulged, violent, mess of a person who is so difficult to deal with and then having her son just walk away from her on the beach with this, " You make me sick" attitude. Not once mentioning that maybe she needed just as much help as this Cathren, ( I don't watch the show, so I don't know who she is.) The whole scene was just frustrating to me.
