Movies_Sterotyping_The_Mentlly_Ill

Movies Sterotyping The Mentlly Ill The portrayal of mentally ill people in cinema is very negative and steotypyical and limits the self esteem of the mentally ill. Consider yourself a child who has been locked away in the wards of our state institutions. You have been told all of his life that he suffers from a mental illness. Whenever you turns on the TV or watches a movie all you hears is that the mentally-ill are violent and dangerous. Movies like "Halloween" and “Silence of the Lambs” will reassure you that he will forever need to be vigilant of his violent tendencies and must make every effort to stop his anti-social behavior. You must never forget to take the medications that will save you from yourself. Newspapers that demand forced hospitalization and incarceration make him tremble with fear. This is a recipe for disaster and would make the perfect plot for a horror movie about how people can become what they are constantly told that they are. Negative images of mental health recipients are so common that peoples perception is one of fear mental, marion, people, illness, evil, movie, one, violent, mentally-ill, lomis, violence, out, movies, bill, because, acts, lecter, never, loomis, just, ill, buffalo, over, michael, mentally, film, ever, dr, committed, about, through, take, starling, senator, seat