Abduction:signs of insanity research

When creating our protagonist for "Abduction" we understood that in order to create an authentic character in which the audience would question their mental stability we decided to look at insanity and how signs of mental instability manifest themselves.


A mental illness is defined as a diagnosis of a behavioural or mental pattern that can cause suffering or a poor ability to function in ordinary life. such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting or occur as a single episode.


To outward society it is clear that our protagonist suffers from a mental illness and to be more specific our protagonist would be seen to be suffering from psychotic depression of a melancholic nature wherein the patient is seen to be suffering from delusions, in our protagonist's case these would be of aliens. Through our research we also found that those suffering from this illness are also more likely to turn to substances such as alcohol and drugs in order to cope as the symptoms are usually congruent with mood this is an aspect which we feel is necessary to implement into our film in order to get the audience and also our protagonist's friend to question his well being, further reinforcing this with other common signs associated with depression such as a disheveled appearance and also erratic behaviour.