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Theories Of Mental Illness

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The Strange Psychotic Situation Picture this: a love-sick teenage girl has her world turned on its head when her ‘dazzling’ vampire boyfriend perishes. Locking herself in her room for months on end, contemplating her reasons to live she is feeling completely lost. But in traditional Hollywood fashion she one day ‘magically’ decides she is perfectly fine and spends the day with her werewolf-to-be best friend. Obviously, she has been wondrously ‘cured’ because that is how depression is ‘fixed’ - anyone who has a vampire boyfriend and a werewolf best friend would know! This is the bewitching plot of New Moon, the second movie of the teenage phenomenon Twilight Saga. Similarly to other movies and television shows, New Moon sinks its fangs into …show more content…

Research has shown that the majority of information that has been accumulated about mental illness is from what is shown in the media. The myths don’t just damage perceptions they can also influence how people with mental illnesses react. One study showed that workers and convicts would rather stay in jail being labelled as a criminal than openly admitting that they were suffering from a metal illness and be put into a psychiatric hospital. These myths that have enveloped society have lead to a series of refectory repercussions that needs to be …show more content…

Lock up your houses and don’t forget to keep your pepper spray on hand because the lunatics are about to attack! Abort mission! Abort mission! Seriously though, get those thoughts out of your head. Is this really what humankind as come to? I am sure that if you saw someone who was in a wheelchair, or someone who had just come out of chemotherapy it wouldn’t be human for you to assume that they would whip out their AK90 and start firing rampage. Then what is the difference for someone who has a mental illness? Why are they assumed to have a grenade on hand? In Central Florida a local news program reported a woman setting her dog on fire. The reporter didn’t forget to end the segment with mentioning how the woman is depressed. Well, that clears it up then doesn’t! Maybe we shouldn’t let depressed people have dogs… only so we wouldn’t have thousands of dogs burnt to death lying all over the place. I mean realistically it would be absurd allow the dogs to be set alight! Wouldn’t it? Whether it was intentional or not the insinuation created only embellishes more detail to the distorted

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