One reason talk of giving up leaves a bad taste in the mouth, writes psychoanalyst Adam Phillips in his book On Giving Up, is that it is felt to be an ominous foreshadowing of, or reminder of the ultimate giving up that is suicide.
Otero's decision to film her life and her challenges with mental illness ultimately led her to create a performance that poetically explores the struggle with love and madness.
Human beings and their basic nature are the same everywhere...The theme is woman, the theme is marginalised people...to be a voice to the voiceless community.