Locking people up in mental health facilities doesn’t automatically cure them. And considering mentally ill people are far more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators of violence, it does not adequately address the mass shooting crisis.
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The APA said that people with mental illness are being stigmatized.
Maniac tackles the idea of achieving normalcy despite mental illness by thrusting its characters into bizarre, otherworldly landscapes. Ultimately, the show concludes being "normal" is both impossible and undesirable.
By folding a discussion of mental illness and its stigmas into the series, The Tick has proven a powerful source of representation.
Before this year, we basically weren’t even able to really provide a very effective number of how many people with mental illness were killed by law enforcement officers. We know, across the country, that people with a mental illness are languishing in jails and emergency rooms, because we simply don’t have enough hospital beds for them.
In his new memoir ‘Born to Run,’ Bruce Springsteen details his lifelong battle with depression.
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