Stigmas in Mental Health
1. Personally, I believe there is so much stigma surrounding mental illness due to a lack of knowledge regarding mental illness in the first place. Throughout time, mental illness has been portrayed so poorly by the media, such as old TV shows or movies, that create a bad image for individuals suffering from it. A lot of mainstream media throughout time has portrayed individuals with mental illness as “psychos” or “being the bad/evil guy”. And if you think about it,…
