Wednesday, January 25, 2017

"Split" is yet another selfish and sensationalist movie that perpetuates damaging stereotypes about "the mentally ill."

January 25, 2017


Most people who are diagnosed with mental illness are never dangerous.  Also, people who are stigmatized by the perception that they are mentally ill are much more at risk of being the victims of violence and not the perpetrators.  





That's a picture of part of this article, which is the first result for a Google search of the term "victimization of the mentally ill":




This is another picture of part of the article:





This is the address for the first page of results for a Google search of "victimization of the mentally ill":







Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, January 25, 2017 @ 6:46 a.m.