Is This Reel Life?

You can't really talk about mental health without discussing one of the most ubiquitous portrayals of mental illness in film: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. For this episode, we watched The Aviator (2004), a movie about the life and madness of Howard Hughes.  He was a wealthy filmmaker, aviation innovator, and avid womanizer, and we had plenty to discuss... as this is a nearly three hour movie. OCD History: http://ocd.stanford.edu/treatment/history.html Howard Hughes Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes The Spruce Goose: http://www.evergreenmuseum.org/the-spruce-goose The Aviator IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/ Follow us on Twitter: @ReelLifeChicago Send us an email: ReelLifeChicago@gmail.com