This is a new single-season American drama in 2020, and it was announced that it was cut shortly after the broadcast because of the low ratings.
The show was cut because of its two most criticized points:
1 Its selling point is figure skating, but there is very little content about figure skating, which may account for less than 10% of the entire plot.
2 There is almost no one person's character in the entire play that is likable.
This weekend during the epidemic, I stayed up late to watch a whole season, which was also the only season of this drama, and I felt the same in many places.
Kat suffers from bipolar disorder that runs in the family, and has been growing up with high hopes and pressure from her mother, who is also ill. Due to a game accident, Kat fell into a coma with a fractured skull. After waking up, she decided to return to the ice rink with her love for figure skating.
Because I have mild bipolar affective disorder and I like to watch figure skating competitions since I was a child (I often go to the Internet to find the competition videos of Jin Yaner, Sun Xue Zhao Hongbo, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong), so I pay special attention to this drama.
The show started to look good from the seventh episode. The only thing that supported me in the first six episodes was the attractive appearance of the actors and the clear and pleasant American pronunciation.
In the first six episodes, the heroine Kat has been unable to overcome the psychological obstacles brought about by the wrestling and the interference from her mother who also suffers from bipolar, and was unable to jump out of the triple toe loop (after the three weeks of ice outside). At the beginning of the seventh episode, in order to improve her grades, Kat began to stop the long-term psychoactive drug used to treat bipolar—lithium carbonate. After that, her emotions began to be at the two ends of ice and fire. life with devastating effects.
You can find a very apt description of "bipolar affective disorder" on Baidu Encyclopedia:
Emotional out of control constitutes his disease, and the family of origin is the root of the disease. He fell into deep loneliness, into utter helplessness. His efforts were to no avail. His social network also disintegrated little by little, along with friends, lovers, and family. There is even resentment and disgust.
Probably since high school, I found my "weird":
Everyone has their ups and downs, but mine was somehow more frequent and violent than others. Joy, anger, sorrow and joy are magnified countless times by ordinary people.
When I am excited, I can stay awake for several days, I can write a 10,000-word diary a day, and there are always many, many thoughts in my mind that are as irresistible as a volcanic eruption;
Sometimes I feel hopeful that I want to learn, but sometimes I easily lie about being sick and skip class and give up on myself;
A friend ignored me because of something at home, and I didn't have the patience to wait for her to tell me why, so I fell into a deep disgust with myself, returned all the little notes she had written to me in front of our mutual friend, and then turned away . Afterwards, he regretted deeply and became so depressed that he self-harmed in class, pierced his arm with a ballpoint pen, and bit his forearm...
It is conceivable that when I saw Kat in "Journey on Ice" biting her arm to the point of blood every time she couldn't control her emotions, it felt like taking a picture of herself in the mirror.
I was a teenager at the time and was very confused as to why I was so emotionally extreme. I don't understand why my fingernails are always bleeding from the habit of picking and biting "barbs" during bipolar depression. I didn't know the word "bipolar" at the time, so I consoled myself
"It's the pressure of the college entrance examination, so it's good to go to college."
When I got to college, I tried to ignore it and focus on learning English and reading.
Just like many people with bipolar disorder, like Kat in "Journey on Ice" who was unstoppable on the ice as soon as the drug was stopped, when I was excited about something, the state was amazing, and I kept refreshing. With my grades 4 and 6, I watched English movies like an obsession, even stayed up all night in Internet cafes, and participated in various English speech contests...
When small academic successes helped me regain my self-confidence, emotional outbursts would break into my life from time to time, disrupting my relationship with my college roommates and my boyfriend.
Once, we made an appointment in our dormitory to go hiking. No one wanted to get up on that day, only me. Because of the loss, I yelled hysterically at the whole dormitory early in the morning, knocked on the door and slapped the window, forcing them to get up and go to the appointment.
After falling in love, this kind of emotional out-of-control is even more difficult to control: I can be so excited that I can’t sleep because of a small thing my boyfriend did for me, and I can also grab the wrong word of my boyfriend and question him all day long. When we were arguing, I could insult him so loudly that he couldn't hold his head up, and then regretted it so much that I wanted to kneel down and beg him for forgiveness...
A word that comes up frequently in Journey on Ice is "episode". Kat's mother raised her two daughters alone. When things are good, she buys a lot of toys for the daughters to take them in and out of the ice rink every day; Absent from her daughters' games, something in her life triggered her, so she spoke ill of her daughters "FXXK" and "Bixch". Every time her mother fell ill, Kat would try to comfort her:
"Mom, you dont mean it...you are just having an episode."
( episode , generally refers to the "episode" of a TV series, but when describing a person suffering from mental illness, episode refers to the state of the illness.)
The most frightening thing about bipolar is that the patient only has a vague impression of the episode at the time of the onset, and does not remember exactly how he hurt himself or others. But when we slowly remember what we did, we fall into a depression where we blame ourselves and almost want to kill ourselves.
Just like my grandmother, she never admitted that she had been arguing with her grandfather for decades, and finally she forced him out of the house for more than ten years; just like my mother, she never admitted that she had beaten me to the point of bruising my legs. Blue, bloody lips, and later hugged me and cried and blamed myself. They didn't know they had the disease until they died. Not sure what bipolar disorder is.
The clinical description of this symptom in Baidu Encyclopedia is accurate:
The prevalence of bipolar disorder/bipolar disorder is 1%.
Many people may think that it is impossible to live a normal life with this disease. In fact, quite a few people have this disease but still have great success in their careers (Churchill, Hemingway, Mariah Carey, Mel Gibson, Kurt Cobain, Vivien Leigh...)
When I was writing this article and looking through the information, I also saw a recent news:
At present, the main treatment drugs for this disease are lithium carbonate (Lithium that Kat takes every day in "Journey on Ice") and anti-epileptic drugs. Both of these drugs have a sedative effect, which explains why the bipolar relapses after Kat is discontinued, so euphoric that he can train tirelessly for hours on end. If it is only mild symptoms and does not affect normal life, regular consultation with a professional and suitable doctor can moderate the symptoms.
In the past, it happened every month, but in the past two years, it happened once or twice a year.
Personal experience:
Personal experience summed up from many years of illness: 1. It is best for patients with particularly serious conditions to stay single and receive active treatment. Keep your distance from family members, especially if some family members also have bipolar, and make sure to keep them from getting worse (patients with jobs can follow Kat's example and move out when they can't stand the pressure from their mothers). 2. When the condition subsides a little, remember to see a doctor regularly and observe the frequency of the disease at any time. When a mild patient is in love, it is best to find a mature, emotionally stable, bulky, and self-dependent partner. 3. Develop the habit of reading and writing a self-encouragement journal to keep self-examination. Make a positive diary: By recording what you do every day, you will find that you have small growth and achievements every day, and record your own problems at the same time. 4. Sufficient love and social support are very important, usually keep two or three trusted friends who don't mind our situation, and maintain a certain sociality. On top of that, avoiding deep relationships can avoid falling into loneliness that no one understands. The hotline and doctor’s phone number of the relevant local institutions should be stored in the mobile phone. Once the situation deteriorates, be sure to seek professional help.
Finally, I recommend all my friends with bipolar to watch this American show. Those who like to learn English can also learn the beautiful American pronunciation of the characters in the show.
This is a drama that most people will feel bloody when watching it, but it actually shows the life of patients with bipolar affective disorder very realistically, and it is worth watching.
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