Mental illness has become a huge issue, people never seem to talk about it because they believe they know just about everything there is to know about it. Mental illness is brought up by so many people, through articles, books and even TV shows, I’ve found that American television doesn’t show all too much on the subject of mental illness which british television has plenty of shows that revolve around mental illness and body issues. There are plenty of reasons why people refuse to talk about mental illness but, I want to know why are people becoming more outspoken about mental disorders?
In Ken Kesey’s One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, before McMurphy enters the hospital, it was all in perfect order, everyone would talk about their experience …show more content…
I owe it to them. I cannot die a coward.” (Carey) Dr. Linehan came forward about everything she’s been through because people who were close to her had said that she should tell people what happened, by doing this she’s telling people that they aren’t alone in what they experience throughout their own struggle with mental illness. Such a few amount of people actually come out and say they’re suffering or have suffered because of what the people around them will say about all of that. People in this world are judgemental and cruel, and what they need to learn is that a mental disorder isn’t the end of the world. “There’s a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life,” said Elyn R. Saks, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Law who chronicles her own struggles with schizophrenia in “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness.” “We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources.” (Carey) There’s a stereotype for people with mental illnesses, that stereotype is that a person cannot function on their own and they’ll always be hopeless if they have a mental illness. A person with mental illness will only be hopeless if they let that happen, if they’ve been raised to depend purely on …show more content…
The show shows how badly a person can and will be affected by mental illness, all throughout the first season it deals with coping skills and a teenager trying to improve her self-image. The teenager, Rae suffers with depression, anxiety, binge-eating and self harm, while she was in the hospital she had a friend named Tix, who has an eating disorder and an issue with physical contact with everyone beside Rae. Rae makes a point half-way through the second episode that, ¨Broken people fall to bits sometimes. That 's what they do.¨ (Touched.) People always tell other to keep their heads together, that they shouldn’t fall apart at the little things, what Rae said in that episode is saying that when someone who has been through hell breaks, even over small things, it’s okay because that’s just what those people will do, they shouldn’t be punished because they couldn’t handle something. People need to know that when it comes to their mental health, it’s okay to think about themselves sometimes, to curl up and cry it all out. This show is so important in telling girl that they should love themselves and that if they need to take a mental health day then, it’s okay, ¨There is nothing wrong with
In Ken Kesey’s One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, before McMurphy enters the hospital, it was all in perfect order, everyone would talk about their experience …show more content…
I owe it to them. I cannot die a coward.” (Carey) Dr. Linehan came forward about everything she’s been through because people who were close to her had said that she should tell people what happened, by doing this she’s telling people that they aren’t alone in what they experience throughout their own struggle with mental illness. Such a few amount of people actually come out and say they’re suffering or have suffered because of what the people around them will say about all of that. People in this world are judgemental and cruel, and what they need to learn is that a mental disorder isn’t the end of the world. “There’s a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life,” said Elyn R. Saks, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Law who chronicles her own struggles with schizophrenia in “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness.” “We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources.” (Carey) There’s a stereotype for people with mental illnesses, that stereotype is that a person cannot function on their own and they’ll always be hopeless if they have a mental illness. A person with mental illness will only be hopeless if they let that happen, if they’ve been raised to depend purely on …show more content…
The show shows how badly a person can and will be affected by mental illness, all throughout the first season it deals with coping skills and a teenager trying to improve her self-image. The teenager, Rae suffers with depression, anxiety, binge-eating and self harm, while she was in the hospital she had a friend named Tix, who has an eating disorder and an issue with physical contact with everyone beside Rae. Rae makes a point half-way through the second episode that, ¨Broken people fall to bits sometimes. That 's what they do.¨ (Touched.) People always tell other to keep their heads together, that they shouldn’t fall apart at the little things, what Rae said in that episode is saying that when someone who has been through hell breaks, even over small things, it’s okay because that’s just what those people will do, they shouldn’t be punished because they couldn’t handle something. People need to know that when it comes to their mental health, it’s okay to think about themselves sometimes, to curl up and cry it all out. This show is so important in telling girl that they should love themselves and that if they need to take a mental health day then, it’s okay, ¨There is nothing wrong with