Crazy
"When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending."- Brene Brown
Craze + -y
This chapter is to explain the cultural stigma to a multifaceted disease that has caused various problems for women with mental health issues. As hysteria describes the historical aspect of female madness, such as its ‘supposed’ link to the female reproductive cycle, “crazy” describes the cultural side. This side deals with the stigma attached to the word crazy, such as how society has viewed those labeled “crazy” then and now. Stigma is considered one of the biggest barriers to mental health care because it “manifests particularly in a phenomenon known as social distancing, whereby people with mental issues …show more content…
According to Merriam-Webster the word “crazy” is mainly used when describing women and means ‘mentally deranged’. On a Google search the first example for the word “crazy” is ‘Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor’. The search engine offers as its very first example for the word “crazy” is about a woman losing her mind. The term "crazy" has been highly conflated with mental illness and when people think of mental illness it immediately brings to mind ‘crazy people’. These people are the ones you think of on the street yelling and grabbing at pedestrians. The ones who make you really uncomfortable and makes you shy away as if they have …show more content…
“Crazy” permeates our society until it is a part of our vernacular so much that it is featured in all my texts and films. The term “crazy” is mentioned in most articles I have read regarding mental illness and hysteria, because of how conflated it has become with the two. Even while reading Hurston’s Color-Struck, I thought the main character “crazy” for her refusal to get her sick child a doctor, because of her own self-stigma. This specific type of stigma arises when people, who have mental illnesses, are not only aware of the stereotypes that describes their stigmatized group but also agree with them. Belief in these stereotypes often weaken self-efficacy, one’s own belief in his or her capacity to perform necessary activities, causing a “why try” attitude that can worsen their chances for recovery. “Further, as people begin to experience symptoms of their mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression, stigma may cause some people to try to avoid, separate from or suppress these feelings, all of which have been linked to the worsening of well-being” (Friedman), many of these, repressions and avoidances, are seen in the film version of Girl, Interrupted. In the film the avoidance and repression comes from Susanna’s boyfriend when he tries to sneak her out of the hospital, telling her that she does
"When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending."- Brene Brown
Craze + -y
This chapter is to explain the cultural stigma to a multifaceted disease that has caused various problems for women with mental health issues. As hysteria describes the historical aspect of female madness, such as its ‘supposed’ link to the female reproductive cycle, “crazy” describes the cultural side. This side deals with the stigma attached to the word crazy, such as how society has viewed those labeled “crazy” then and now. Stigma is considered one of the biggest barriers to mental health care because it “manifests particularly in a phenomenon known as social distancing, whereby people with mental issues …show more content…
According to Merriam-Webster the word “crazy” is mainly used when describing women and means ‘mentally deranged’. On a Google search the first example for the word “crazy” is ‘Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor’. The search engine offers as its very first example for the word “crazy” is about a woman losing her mind. The term "crazy" has been highly conflated with mental illness and when people think of mental illness it immediately brings to mind ‘crazy people’. These people are the ones you think of on the street yelling and grabbing at pedestrians. The ones who make you really uncomfortable and makes you shy away as if they have …show more content…
“Crazy” permeates our society until it is a part of our vernacular so much that it is featured in all my texts and films. The term “crazy” is mentioned in most articles I have read regarding mental illness and hysteria, because of how conflated it has become with the two. Even while reading Hurston’s Color-Struck, I thought the main character “crazy” for her refusal to get her sick child a doctor, because of her own self-stigma. This specific type of stigma arises when people, who have mental illnesses, are not only aware of the stereotypes that describes their stigmatized group but also agree with them. Belief in these stereotypes often weaken self-efficacy, one’s own belief in his or her capacity to perform necessary activities, causing a “why try” attitude that can worsen their chances for recovery. “Further, as people begin to experience symptoms of their mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression, stigma may cause some people to try to avoid, separate from or suppress these feelings, all of which have been linked to the worsening of well-being” (Friedman), many of these, repressions and avoidances, are seen in the film version of Girl, Interrupted. In the film the avoidance and repression comes from Susanna’s boyfriend when he tries to sneak her out of the hospital, telling her that she does