In today’s society, the media can have a big impact on the general public’s attitude toward the people who are suffering from mental illnesses. Take for instance the television program Wonderland, which has an opening scene of a man who is suffering from schizophrenia who goes on a shooting spree in through Times Square in New York City and then later stabs a pregnant female doctor in the stomach. The program had premiered in 200, but was taken off of the air shortly afterward because the network said it received poor ratings, but nine years later the program was put back on the air (Tartakovsky & Read, n.d.). It is not just television programs and Hollywood movies which portray mentally ill people in a bad light. National and local news media
