Answer by eric the great
No they don't give an accurate representation. Usually the media talks about mental illness when a celebrity has a problem( who cares about Britney) or when someone kills a bunch of people. So the media portrays all mental ill people in a negative way and they sure like to stereotype people with mental illness and you can't do that. Everyone is different, with different problems. The only positive movie I have seen about someone with mental illness is "It's a beautiful mind". I do hope someday the stigma of mental illness goes away.
Answer by ♫ Mad Luv ♫
well sence i work in the media and have a great idea on how people work or show their work eithic!
everything is skewed! no the media can't get the big photo on mental health or anything else for that matter.. unless they do that job they only read what they have infront of them
Answer by Aria T
I most assuredly cannot provide any hard facts off hand that you could use in your dissertation, but the obvious and short answer is that the media definitely does not accurately represent mental illness. When it comes to movies about mental illness, most people with an illness are portrayed as crackpots, and many symptoms are incredibly inaccurate (a good example is the portrayal of Nash's full-blown occular, auditory, AND tactile hallucination in A Beautiful Mind, which almost never happens to individuals with schizophrenia).
Trained mental health professionals are portrayed with mental illnesses themselves (see: "Hide and Seek" and "What About Bob"); people with mental retardation are laughed at for their handicap in the news, and in movies/TV; the homeless with mental illnesses and people with drug addictions are seen as an epidemic to be "cleaned up" or "dealt with" by reporters; stories of police brutality against the mentally incompetant, poor retirement home care of individuals with alzheimers, and even an appropriate depiction of depression/anxiety/mood disorders is brushed under the rug by officials and columnists.
I could go on and on, and so could everyone else within the profession. We have to accept that psychology was associated with pseudosciences long ago, and it will be many moons before that tie can be cut, and people can see mental health for what it actually is.
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