These blogs are written by people with personal experience of mental illness. They review and reflect on some of the ways mental health has been portrayed in the media, including TV episodes and newspaper articles.
The way mental illness is portrayed and reported in the media is incredibly powerful in educating and influencing the public. Our Media Advisory Service works with journalists, script writers and other media professionals to help ensure fictional and factual portrayals of people with mental health problems in the media are accurate and sensitive.
By writing about their own experiences and their reactions to these portrayals, these bloggers raise awareness of the different attitudes they have encountered to their mental health and how the media can help shape these attitudes. Pledge to help end mental health stigma today >>
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Perception is a funny thing... And “funny” is a strange thing to perceive. As a comedy writer and performer I like making fun of things that I feel angered or frightened by. Perceptions can both anger and frighten me...
Iron Man 3 (2013) is based on the events of Tony Stark after The Avengers Assemble (2012). The synopsis describes how Tony Stark has developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) since he and the other Avengers fought against Loki and the army who were set to destroy Earth.
I am an artist based in London and I have schizophrenia.