I wasn't sure where to put this but this seemed like the best spot.

I'm sure most of us know the trope known as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. It's a character of a girl in films who is cute, quirky, funny, dreamy, and well, manic. A couple examples of Manic Pixie Dream Girls are Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind (I think she's the spot on stereotype) and Natalie Portman in Garden State.

My question is what is this tropes effect on the publics view ok Bipolar disorder. Do you think these characters are an accurate potrayal of certain people with Bipolar disorder? Do you think it has a positive or negative effect on people's perception of the disease? Do you these characters are one dimensional or just in the throughs of a manic episode? I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts on this