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You know what that is? Growth. The fourth season of Unsafe brings some serious character development of the individuals and the relationships that we have seen flourish in recent years. Issa’s Block Party dreams come to fruition and they are beautifully successful in paving the way for his career. Lawrence thrives on work and is able to understand what he is looking for in a partner and, more specifically, to rethink their past with Issa. Molly, well, Molly still has work to do, but we’re not going to discredit the progress that she makes in order to allow Andrew and the acceptance of god for who he is. And Nathan has come back into the picture with a new apartment and the openness that has Issa and spectators alike, putting their past in perspective.
In the penultimate episode of the season, “Discrete Trying,” the handsome Houston native (played by Kendrick Sampson) is open about what he was going through the last season. For anyone who forgot: after you connect on an emotional level and partner for a bit, Nathan “ghost” of the Issa. As the law of ghosting tends to go, Nathan gone to Texas without a warning or message of text to the end of season three. He said Issa was in a bad place, and viewers could see the pain in their eyes. It is not until the most recent episode in which he opens up about the seriousness with which he was struggling, and it’s a surprisingly candid conversation that we so rarely see portrayed on television.
Although, in principle, says that he was fighting against the depression, Nathan shares with Issa that he “doesn’t just disappear”, but was diagnosed with bipolar disorder during the time he spent in the house. Both recognize their mistakes — Issa apology that does not see when he was hurting, and Nathan apologizes for not knowing how to talk about it. “I had to get comfortable with him,” Nathan’s actions, and the tone and sincerity in your conversation it’s so well done.
She is a mature and open dialogue filled with compassion and acceptance between the two characters.
This is not a coup battle over the past that ends in a screaming match between the former couple — which might have happened in previous seasons— but it is a mature and open dialogue filled with compassion and acceptance between the two characters. Talk openly with your partner about mental health is not an easy thing to do, but Nathan vulnerability and how he assumes the responsibility for the past to show how comfortable it is with himself and the place in the day of today.
New York Times the writer and advocate of the mental health Bassey Ikpi touched upon the topic of your conversation on Twitter and applauded Sampson’s portrait of Nathan, as well as the way Unsafe he has represented the mental illness on the screen. “Congratulations to @kendrick38 for a kind and subtle portrait of regular-ass bipolar disorder. I rewatched the series recently and with that information in mind, I saw the soft and subtle options and changes. Bipolar disorder is not always this show. Has moments that are not recognized until much later,” she wrote.
In real life, Sampson is an advocate of the Black mental health, and after Sunday night’s episode, reminded fans how important it is to take care of the emotional well-being in the midst of the struggle for racial justice. “Many of the obstacles to our mental health and for many of the guidance systems of us and the trauma that surrounds us. We have to put in the work to liberate our mental health. We need the radical love in our communities,” he wrote, that extends over the barriers to Black men and women face in an assay for Complex.
Throughout this season, Unsafe has done a great job of dealing with the topic of mental health. From Molly’s ability to cope with their patterns of relationship in the therapy of Nathan open about having bipolar disorder, the creators have portrayed the realities of real life on the screen and helped to erase the stigma of mental illness.
If you or someone you love is experiencing signs or symptoms of bipolar disorder or other mental illness and seeking mental health help, the The national Alliance of Mental Illness it has resources and a telephone helpline (1-800-950-6264).
