HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Media Matters For America

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1CC3
• Professor: All

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Lecture 16: media representations of mental illness (lecture 16 in total) march 12. Probably mostly the media (news, books, tv, social media). We tend to see mental illnesses as simple. Mental illnesses are seen through a positivists perspective. Meaning, all things about mental illnesses are definable, identifiable and knowable. Media influences our ideas on mental illnesses more than being in contact with someone who has a mental illness. So, if we knew people who had a mental illness, we would think more about what media says about mental illnesses instead of the people who have mental illnesses. The media only shows people who have mental illnesses as insane or crazy. The people who can still have normal conversations even though they have a mental illness are not shown at all. They are grouped i(cid:374) (cid:449)ith the stig(cid:373)a a(cid:374)d the(cid:455) (cid:373)ight (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e lo(cid:374)elier si(cid:374)(cid:272)e the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t get atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374). Most depictions are overwhelmingly negative when talking about mental illnesses.