Media's Damaging Depictions Of Mental Illness

There is many people who are categories as having mental illness, however there are so much more people who have mental illness, but don’t want to admit on having mental problems. There is many stereotyping that occur throughout the society, which is a major factor of discrimination for those with mental illness. Social stigma does not just occur within individuals, but it is transmitted around the media.
The media stigmatizes mental illness as someone whom the society should have fear to. Hollywood movies portrays people who are psychos, killers/criminals, and stalkers as mental illness (Uwujaren, 2012). These are the cases with horror movies where the antagonist has some sort of mental illness. Jarune Uwujaren clarifies in the article, “Mental

Some of the myths Tartakovsky describes are that many people believe that people with mental illness are more capable on being violent, however the reality is that mental illness people are the victims who are being mistreated by those who don’t show any mental illness. Some people think that people with mental illness are unpredictable and they fear that they do not know what they are going to do, which is attack another individual. People consider that depression can be cured and helped by a drug, however it takes more than a drug to help an individual who is suffering from depression. A drug can control them for a certain amount of time, but it takes more than a drug to help them. Most people think that people with mental illness don’t get better and that treatment does not help with improvement, therefore a therapist is a great beginning for progress. However, some individuals believe that all mental health professionals are the same and there is no distinction among the different therapist to help with mental illness. There is many therapist with different professions which can help with mental illness, yet the individual just has to find the correct one for them

Mental ill people do not choose to be sick, however their progress in getting better can decrease with many negative behavior towards mental ill problems. In order for a mental ill individual to feel better, the stigma of mental ill has to reduce in the media. A way to reduce the stigma in the media is to support those who are mentally ill, not based the facts through the media, teach other people to not be prejudice and educate them about the realities of mental