The Day I Snapped, this is a film that shows the stories of people who have struggled with stress, exhaustion and mental illness. The film portrays how they felt when they finally gave in. There are many men and women talked about in this film, but I focused on two of them, one male and one female. Mike, is the male who has been working 14 hour days, without taking lunch breaks so he can get more work done, he is very stressed and tired and just plain exhausted. These are all characteristics and actions that can lead to mental illness. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay As Mike worked, he began to think that if he took a lunch break, people would think he wasn't working hard enough, forcing him to stop taking it and go straight to work. This led to him burning out at work and because of that he made more mistakes, so this led to him staying at work even longer every day to do the work he needed to do and then correct the mistakes he made. It. Mike was also struggling to balance work and home life, so he started not wanting to go out or even hang out with his kids. Then one day on the way to work he wasn't feeling very well so he got off the train and took a new one home because something was wrong. Then he blacked out and when he woke up he was taken off the train, everyone thought he had had a heart attack when in reality he was just too stressed and they ended up calling it executive burnout. His GP then prescribed him antidepressants and told him he needed to be out of work for 6 months, but as his job didn't allow this, he ended up returning to work just after three weeks (Real Stories, 2017). Due to returning to work so early he was unable to cope and was fired from his job. Mike displays all the symptoms that can be associated with mental illness. He has high levels of stress and anxiety due to work, cannot balance his home and work life, so he alienated his children and wife and they ended up leaving him, causing him to experience more stress, guilt and feelings of inadequacy . The next person I looked at was a woman, Linda, she was a social worker who wanted to do all these nice things to help people, but it was emotionally and physically exhausting for her. She was told to take time off work and did so, but soon returned after only 8 weeks off. She has 10+ years of experience, but when she returned to work the same man she was trying to help get out of the hospital before she left was still there. When he saw it he realized he couldn't do it anymore because he couldn't even help this old man. Linda also had difficulty getting out of bed in the morning and constantly argued with her husband and children for no reason and for all of this she wished she were dead. She was so determined to believe that death was the best option for her because there was no reason for her to even live. So, one night she drank brandy and took pills trying to kill herself, then woke up in hospital the next day, furious that she wasn't dead. Linda shows all the signs of mental illness (Real Stories, 2017). She's just stressed, emotionally and physically exhausted, and would rather be dead than alive. After she was released from the hospital, her children and husband were so traumatized that they always wondered if she would do something like this again and since they were all unable to cope they separated. Linda is now accepting that she will never go back to work and is trying to become a housewife and take care of herself.