‟All of us are standing on the border between normal and abnormal.”
Initially, I decided to watch this K-Drama because I came across a TikTok video about it, and because I found out that Park Bo-Young is the main lead in this drama. But the storyline made me stay until the end. This is actually the only K-Drama that I managed to watch until the last episode this year! My commitment is so bad I couldn't even get myself to commit to finish a K-Drama....until I came across this one.
This K-Drama tells the story of nurse Jung Da-Eun as she navigates life as a psychiatry nurse. Every patient that is warded in the psychiatric unit has their own diagnosis and backstory. This has shone light on the various types of mental illnesses and how one's life can be affected by it, both on the patient and their caregivers.
Mental health issues is like a topic that is kept in a dark room with warnings on the door to not get in, at least that's what it's like for me while I was growing up. Even today, there is still such a huge stigma on the topic of mental illnesses. "Dia ada masalah otak tu." "Orang gila tu". Words like "crazy" is often used to describe people that are deemed abnormal by society's standard, when actually there are more accurate terms that could be used to describe people with mental illnesses. The spectrum is so wide, if only more people care enough to learn them.
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