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I Am Sam!
A mental disorder is a wide range of mental conditions that can affect a person’s mood, thinking and even their behavior. Many of us sometimes believe that those with disorders, such as mental ones, are not able to meet expectations that are required for certain task. Many people with mental disorders find it hard to do daily task such as bathe and feed themselves and even work while others with the disorders find task such as taking care of themselves easy but looking after others much harder. In the movie, I Am Sam, main character Sam, who had a mental disorder, found that it was hard to take care of his daughter. The movie battles between the right of Sam being able to take care of his daughter, even though he has a mental disorder and placing the little girl in a home where she could get the love and care that she needed. This is all done to say that mental disorders does not change how someone loves, love is abstract, not something that is learned, and some of those with mental disorders can do exactly what those of us without disorders can do.
Many people believe that mental disorders can cause someone to have different emotions towards someone, which is true, however, mental disorders does not change how someone loves. Love is something that is grown, meaning someone’s love for another person can grow more and more whether they have a mental illness or not. In the film, I Am Sam, Sam showed that his love had grown for his daughter the moment that he decided to take on responsibilities as being a single parent. Love is an abstract factor that we were prolonged to the moment we are conceived. We knew that we loved our mothers, just as most of our mothers knew that she loved us. Love is not a lesson that we had to sit down in front of a desk listening to a teacher go on and on about but a lesson that we forever use in everyday life as we grow.
Mental Disorders, such as Mental Retardation, what it seemed Sam had is usually caused by a variety of...