Dr Van Velsen has made a study of Hollywood's treatment of mental illness over the past six decades and has found that the movie-makers almost always get it wrong. "Mentally ill people are often wrongly portrayed as violent and that perpetuates the myths about all or the majority of patients being violent. In The Silence … Continue reading Our Suffering, For Your Entertainment?
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Sad, but Anger Protects Me: A Post on Relationships and the Myth of Mental Illness and Lack of Intelligence
I think it is amazing that people can "accept" (as much as they can) that I have issues controlling my anger when I am hurt; yet, when things are hard for them, my mental health is supposed to magically get better and my reactive behaviors of course are supposed to cease. I am very well … Continue reading Sad, but Anger Protects Me: A Post on Relationships and the Myth of Mental Illness and Lack of Intelligence
Always to be an Orphan… Unnoticed
A rant written on my iPhone in the emergency room a few days ago, while waiting to learn how the woman I view as a mother was going to fair. There are other "parental" emotions and such involved but I won't go into those details. I am simply posting this because I hope it will serve the purpose of … Continue reading Always to be an Orphan… Unnoticed
Just What the Doctor Ordered... 