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Why is there so much stigma attached to people with schizophrenia? |
Why is there so much stigma attached to people with schizophrenia? The media have a field day when a schizophrenic person slips up in the public eye. Schizophrenics are often very withdrawn and timid people and yearly thousands of murders occur only about 40 are caused by a schizophrenic person. People love the fear of the "unknown" and very few people are educated about schizophrenia even a lot of the families of these people are not getting the proper information required about the illness. The media loves turning these people into monsters and how many stories in the news paper do you believe? if it said "meat prices have dropped by 10% this week" the very large majority of us who don't investigate this would take it word for word, and the media loves to twist stories. We also seem to love movies portraying schizophrenics as axe wielding killers, someone hearing voices is a pretty disturbing thing to most (especially the person experiencing them) and film makers know how to play that well turning schizophrenics into demonic characters who may be being controlled by the voices of Satan him self or at least portrayed that way. We often fear the unknown, most people don't even know what schizophrenia is you get these dumb 13 yr olds who make jokes like "I'm a schizophrenic and so am I" I have had to inform so many people that is MPD not schizophrenia. We are so used to the everyday killer, a man shoots another man we think "thats terrible" but sadly we are used to this, when schizophrenia comes into it something we don't hear much of often it leaves a huge impact "man kills other man after being told to do it by voices" sounds more interesting something more uncommon in the papers and the media has a field day with it. We will remember the things that don't happen often for years to come it will leave a huge impression on us and really get us talking, but notice in all these articles of schizophrenic murder cases the media portrays them as horrible people they never tell the full story of how they themselves were tormented for years by their own mind or maybe they thought that person was the devil and once out of their delirious stage understand and feel horrible as to what they have done ... bloody media.... Well schizophrenics are not the most stable minded of people and are known to perhaps suddenly change into their pshycotic alter ego and go on a killing rampage. Thats just my theory... Demonstrated by North London Bird - most people only know the stereotyped schizophrenic - ie a complete split personality where one being a psycho which is extremely rare. Most people don't know of the more common symptons of schizophrenia. I think the general public have so many misconceptions about what is it...many think it's a split personality and others hear a rare incident on the news where someone with this illness has attacked somebody. It's a very sad illness as it often strikes just as an individual hits late teens, early twenties. But while it's not curable, I know a lot of people with schizophrenia who lead their lives fairly balanced if they have the correct support and medication. Most people with schizophrenia are not dangerous, they pose more danger to themselves than anyone else when they are unwell. It's only when that person slips through the mental health net that things may go badly wrong...but that is not common. It's a shame that mental illness still carries stigma, although things are slowly beginning to change. More education is needed. I am in the mental health system the stigma is not just for schizophrenia its for anyone who has a nervous disorder and although most folk accept it as another illness! it comes from the old days of the asylum which older folk will remember and the grimness of it all What? That's crazy! |
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