Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick is another novel which examines the lack of understanding society has for mental illness. Once again, like Wintergirls, Silver Linings Playbook is written from the perspective of the person who is suffering from the mental illness. Which makes it another very honest book. The book is based around Pat Solitano's struggle to come to terms with his bi-polar disorder and the effect this had on his life. Pat himself describes how from the outside looking in, the effect a mental illness has on someone’s mind is very hard to understand. His therapist is warning Pat about the instability of a women, who Pat knows, who is suffering from depression after the death of her husband. Pat says that his description
