Media Influence On Mental Illness

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Mental Illness is portrayed and identified differently between the media and psychiatrists. They would suggest what most likely be an individual who is diagnosed with mental illness, that would also fall into the category of someone who has a mental disorder/mental health issue. Media is demonstrated through radio, TV shows such as fiction, documentaries, journals and etc.
The source implies how common mental illness is shown not very common through media but, it’s categorized into three groups. “First group, is diagnosed with acute mental health problems such as normal depression following a loss or some other stressful event. Second group is those with acute mental health problems that are more severe or those who have chronic conditions but who can maintain normal role functioning. And lastly, the
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Which also needs to be provided with treatment of medications for the person to try to decrease their health problem. Scientists try to seek what the illness known in other terms, “sick”, and it’s used to try to understand the relationship between the brain structure and human behavior.”
The media that were selected to identify someone with mental illness was found on Netflix and the show is called, “Criminal Minds”. The source states that mental illness can be measured by the psychological behavior, evidence being shown, also based on the person’s disorder of their given mental illness. Briefly shown, from Season 4 on episode 6, was about a woman who happen to have kidnapped a five year old. Due to the fact, wanted to reenact that her newborn is still alive. The children’s who would be first kidnapped were alive up to seven days, meaning that’s the length how long the incident lasted. Then, she would dress them up for their proper funeral by being left on the streets with a dress attire. The FBI (Federal Bureau Analyst), Agent Prentice and

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