I never saw the movie Silver Linings Playbook but I did listen to the audiobook. The author is Matthew Quick. The story is narrated by Patrick Peoples. Pat is 34 years old and living with his mother and father in Pennsylvania. Pat was recently discharged from a mental health facility that he calls "the bad place." His mother monitors his meds, takes him to his court ordered weekly appointment with his psychiatrist, cooks his meals, and buys his clothes. His father is distant and reclusive. If the football team, the Eagles, don't win the weekly game his father will not speak to anyone in the household for an entire week. Pat tries to improve himself so he can get to the end of "apart time." Before he was in an institution, he was married and taught history at a high school. Pat thinks if he be kind instead of right and become physically fit, he will win his wife back. Pat does hundreds of sit ups and bench presses before going for a ten mile run. Pat is obviously mentally ill but his line of thinking was interesting to listen to. The plot is complicated and the ending was not what I expected.