Silver Linings Playbook Page #4

anything of it. Which is odd,

'cause I should have.

I come home, what do I see? I walk

in the door and I see underwear and

pieces of clothing and a guy's

pants with his belt in it,

and I walk up the

stairs, and all...

Ll of a sudden I see the DVD

player, and on the d-...

VD player is the cd and it's

playing our wedding song,

and then I look down

and I see my wife's...

Panties on the

ground and then-

I look up and I see her

naked in the shower...

And I think, "oh, that's kinda

sweet, she's in the shower.

What a perfect thing. I'm gonna find

her and maybe I'll go in there.

We never-...F***

in the shower anymore.

Maybe today we will.

"I...

Pull the curtain back and

there's the f***ing history...

Teacher with tenure.

And you know what he says to me?

"you should probably go.".

That's what he says to me.

So yeah, I snapped. I

almost beat him to death.

But now I get f***ing

chastised for it? I'm

parallel to my father?

I don't think so.

All right. Can you talk about something

that you did, before or after?

I left work early... which I never

do, by the way, but I got in a.

Yeah, about a week before the

incident, I called the cops and

I told them that my wife and the

history guy were plotting against

me by embezzling money from

the local high school, which

wasn't true... it was a delusion. And

we later found out from the hospital

that's because I'm, uh...

Undiagnosed bipolar.

Yeah. With mood swings and weird

thinking brought on by severe

stress, which rarely

happens, thank God.

And then the shower incident

happened and that's when everything

snapped, so I then realized that,

oh, wow, I've been dealing with

this my whole life. And without any

supervision I've been doing it all

on my own with no help and basically I've

been white-knuckling it this whole time.

That had to be hard.

Yeah. It's a lot to deal

with, especially when

you don't know what the

hell is happening,

which I do now. Sort of.

Pat, you have to take

your medication.

I can't, mom. I can't.

I will call them.

They'll come for you.

Why would you do that?

You wouldn't do that.

Why would you call them?

What's up?

I don't, I don't feel good

when I'm on them, mom.

I don't feel good.

I'm so much clearer without them.

Mom, they make me bloated.

I don't like the way

it makes me look.

Why don't you just

take your medication?

You've gotta take

your medication.

Come on, I'm doing it with my physicality.

I've been workin' out,

that's what I'm doin'.

Why is he wearing

a garbage bag?

Why are you wearing

a garbage bag?

To sweat.

Sit down. We're seven minutes in, no score.

Come on, help turn the juju around.

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