Unless society is mandated to take an informational course on mental illness, we will forever get our bulk of knowledge regarding mental illness from media sources. More often than not though, the information that comes across is stereotypical, negative or even completely false. However, while watching The Road Within, one could grasp the different ways mental illness can be portrayed in the media. Like other movies and tv shows that contain mentally ill people, there were times the person was looked at as helpless, like they should be feared or excluded and, more often than the other stereotypes, like they are completely irresponsible and unaware (Corrigan and Watson 2002). Severely mentally ill or not, everyday these patients not only have
