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An ER Psychiatrist Analyzes The Pitt’s Mental-Health Struggles
“These are realistically flawed characters, and some of the ways their flaws come out are in how they manage these mental-health patients.”
But much like the doctors and medical students bouncing around Dr. Robby’s ER, The Pitt has flaws, too — for instance, the way the show handles mental health, whether it’s nicknaming an unhoused patient with schizophrenia “the Kraken” or questioning a beauty influencer with mercury-poisoning-induced psychosis. Watching The Pitt, she sees tension between the series’ desire to reflect a stigma around psychiatric treatment that really does exist in emergency rooms and its ability to play out a mental-health narrative that isn’t simply in service to a doctor’s character arc. In the first scene of the show, we see Dr. Robby meet Dr. Abbott (Shawn Hatosy), the attending who was on overnight and had a terrible shift, on the roof, and both covertly and overtly, they’re talking about suicide.
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