Hey guys! My computer's been broken for a bit.. but now we're back up and running thought I'd stop by and say hi!! And also have a bit of a grumble..
Aren't you so pleased? :P
So this grumble is generally aimed at the Daily Mail, and the media in general I suppose.
So for those of you who aren't aware, as I realize many of you won't be, The Daily Mail is a large, nation newspaper in the UK.
I came across an article they'd published on their online news page about the stigma towards Mental Health Disorders. I started reading in good faith, thinking how good it was that a national newspaper was aware of, and acting upon, the false stigmas surrounding Mental Health Disorders. However as I read further, it became apparent that if they were trying to beat the stigmas they were doing a truly awful job. In fact, it sounded as though the writer of the article agreed with the stigmas and were trying to reinforce them on the nation, rather than trying to eliminate them.
Here is a link to the article which, despite objections from various organisations, is still publish on their website - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2055716/Breaking-mental-health-taboo.html#ixzz1cTN8PgFv
It is entitled "We need to talk about breaking the mental health taboo." This filled me with hope when I first saw it, as I thought that not only did they realize there were people suffering from Mental Health Disorders, they also realized a way of helping was stopping the taboo and making more people willing to talk and listen about it.
But as I read further into the article, it appears that the writer, too, paints people who suffer from Mental health Disorders with the same stigmas that many others do. It also seems as though the writer is more concerned with the cost for care of people with Mental Health Disorders.
The pictures that they have chosen to go with the article also trouble me.. They seem to be painting those with Mental Health Disorders as abnormal, far from the real world, lost in their own minds, and not able to cope.
With phrases like "Yet in many ways the report is optimistic that these problems can be defeated." the article seems to imply that it does not think the problems we face can be defeated.
The general gist behind the article appears, to me at least, to imply that it costs to much for care of those with Mental Health Disorders, and that they are a danger to society and should not be admitted into community support schemes.
If they did set off with good intentions to reducing the stigma towards Mental Health Disorders.. they failed, completely and utterly. I don't really know what else to say. I find it pretty hard when there are these stigmas, that are not good, healthy or beneficial That's hard enough, the fact that they exist. But the fact that media is encouraging them..
It's almost sickening..
:):
xo
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2055716/Breaking-mental-health-taboo.html#ixzz1cZhpd6WW
Aren't you so pleased? :P
So this grumble is generally aimed at the Daily Mail, and the media in general I suppose.
So for those of you who aren't aware, as I realize many of you won't be, The Daily Mail is a large, nation newspaper in the UK.
I came across an article they'd published on their online news page about the stigma towards Mental Health Disorders. I started reading in good faith, thinking how good it was that a national newspaper was aware of, and acting upon, the false stigmas surrounding Mental Health Disorders. However as I read further, it became apparent that if they were trying to beat the stigmas they were doing a truly awful job. In fact, it sounded as though the writer of the article agreed with the stigmas and were trying to reinforce them on the nation, rather than trying to eliminate them.
Here is a link to the article which, despite objections from various organisations, is still publish on their website - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2055716/Breaking-mental-health-taboo.html#ixzz1cTN8PgFv
It is entitled "We need to talk about breaking the mental health taboo." This filled me with hope when I first saw it, as I thought that not only did they realize there were people suffering from Mental Health Disorders, they also realized a way of helping was stopping the taboo and making more people willing to talk and listen about it.
But as I read further into the article, it appears that the writer, too, paints people who suffer from Mental health Disorders with the same stigmas that many others do. It also seems as though the writer is more concerned with the cost for care of people with Mental Health Disorders.
The pictures that they have chosen to go with the article also trouble me.. They seem to be painting those with Mental Health Disorders as abnormal, far from the real world, lost in their own minds, and not able to cope.
With phrases like "Yet in many ways the report is optimistic that these problems can be defeated." the article seems to imply that it does not think the problems we face can be defeated.
The general gist behind the article appears, to me at least, to imply that it costs to much for care of those with Mental Health Disorders, and that they are a danger to society and should not be admitted into community support schemes.
If they did set off with good intentions to reducing the stigma towards Mental Health Disorders.. they failed, completely and utterly. I don't really know what else to say. I find it pretty hard when there are these stigmas, that are not good, healthy or beneficial That's hard enough, the fact that they exist. But the fact that media is encouraging them..
It's almost sickening..
:):
xo
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2055716/Breaking-mental-health-taboo.html#ixzz1cZhpd6WW
