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The Effects Of Glamorization And Romanticization Of Mental Illness

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According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, only 41% of adults within the United States suffering from a mental health condition, seek out treatment, leaving 59% of adults undiagnosed or untreated (NAMI). In today’s society, improper portrayal in movies and television, using illnesses as adjectives in casual language, uneducated posts on social media, and viewing common disordered symptoms as “quirky” or “cute” or in some cases "tragically beautiful", if not desirable, then demonized, is far too common and is a prominent factor in the decline of support for mental illness sufferers. This consequently contributes to an increase in feelings of invalidation for the affected. Awareness about the negative effects of glamorization and romanticization relating to mental illness needs to be properly spread to help reduce the number of sufferers refusing to seek professional help due to feeling invalid or undermining the problem. …show more content…

“... creating this distorted image of mental health that sometimes is somehow appealing to people and makes people covet a mental health disorder because of it’s apparent trendiness” (Barton). According to writers at Healthy Place, The romanticization of mental illness is quite common and feeds the stigma, ignoring the way disorders actually work within the human mind and creating a false image about

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