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Mental Disorders In The Media
I concur that the movies, television, media want to coin mental health issues as a crazy disease as it attracts attention thus makes them more visible and more profitable in those medias. Unfortunately, people who suffer from mental illness is not portrayed in most cases correctly. What happens to those who are suffering such debilitating disorders sees this kind of portrayal it brings their disorders to a higher level causing more harm than good. We have to understand that people who suffer from such afflictions are not the disheveled, homeless, drug addicted, alcohol addicted crazy person. They can be people holding a job in a three-piece suit and you would never know they are fighting demons unless they acted out or told you. It is not
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