Still Alice: Discuss the Current Diagnosis, Mental Health

Still Alice
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“Still Alice” is based on Lisa Genova’s 2007 novel and directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer. The movie is about Dr. Alice Howland, who is a linguistic professor at Columbia University and discovers that she has an early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The film indicates the adverse effects of the disease especially on how it can strip people of their ability to communicate effectively with others.
As the movie begins, Alice is well, and she has everything. She is a renowned professor and happily married with three children. She is celebrating her 50th birthday in New York with her husband and children. Indeed, Alice is a woman who has accomplished much with a stable job and a good family. However, she soon begins to lose loose items in the house and also forgets even important events. Alice feels disoriented on her day-to-day jog around the University and thinks she might have a brain tumor. When she finally visits a neurologist, she is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer which is genetic. The whole family faces a traumatic challenge as the terminal ailment becomes adverse as time progresses. She wishes that the diagnosis confirmed her guess because when people have cancer, the society takes care of them whereas, in the case of Alzheimer, the victims suffer because people have not yet understood the ailment. Alice keeps on struggling to fight the condition and tries to make most of the time to have love and peace so that her life may be better.
Alice exhibited persistent difficulties in both verbal and nonverbal communication. According to Austin Speaks 2016, patients have problems in communicating and sharing information with oth...