The general public have the fear of the ‘crazies’ breaking out of the psychiatric hospital, or the fear of encountering one of these mentally ill humans on the street. Is this fear justified? No. Due to the media portraying these human beings as mindless animals there is a view on them as ‘violent psycho’s who all need to be locked up’. Although there have been a number of high profile cases where people diagnosed with schizophrenia have committed serious crimes, the media manage to inflate these stories to make them into a front page headline full of stereotypes. This rallies up the public - that is striving for the acceptance of everyone- against the group of individuals with mental health conditions. All this does is imprint a constant brand on the forehead of these …show more content…
This is evident when you see the unfairness in the spread of funding for mental health compared to general health. The hospitals are known to be very uncared for and the comparison on the amount they are understaffed is immense. Often there are only 2 nurses on a ward filled mentally ill people that need constant care. It seems that society is geared towards helping all people but helping those for whom there is a massive outcry for. A large percentage of people with schizophrenia don’t even look ill so society automatically turns off the need to care for these people even though their illness hinders their life in a way that no other illness does. It feels to me that society try and grade how they help ill people on how ill they look. You’ll often see massive media outcries for a young child with a temporary wound, people will share it outraged at how this could happen. Why never for a mentally ill person? Surely having a burden on your mind for the rest of your life is worse than something you can hop down to A&E for. So why isn’t it treated that