{"id":99,"date":"2010-11-22T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shield34.ncl.ac.uk\/psy\/?p=99"},"modified":"2010-11-22T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T16:17:32","slug":"portrayal-of-people-with-mental-health-problems-as-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/mbbspsychiatry\/2010\/11\/22\/portrayal-of-people-with-mental-health-problems-as-violent\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrayal of people with mental health problems as violent"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re all used to the\u00a0portrayal\u00a0of people with a current or previous history of mental health problems as violent. If you work in the field then it is a daily issue when visiting patients outrside mental health units as the stigma associated with mental illnesses is prevalent in our colleagues from other disciplines. The Guardian today\u00a0has\u00a0an\u00a0interesting\u00a0piece<\/a> that discusses a\u00a0piece\u00a0or work by the\u00a0Glasgow Media Group,\u00a0entitled\u00a0“Making a Drama out of a Crisis.” The report states that “Some of this study suggests that mental illness is still used as an easy source of violent tragedy or as something to poke fun at.”<\/p>\n

According to the Guardian:<\/p>\n

“[The report] examined three months of drama programmes on British terrestrial channels between 4pm and 11pm from 1 January this year. It found 74 episodes from 34 different programmes contained mental illness-related story lines.Of those story lines, there were 33 instances of violence towards others, including a character in Channel 4’s Shameless attacking her partner, and an escaped schizophrenic patient in Channel 5’s CSI:NY killing people to avenge his girlfriend’s murder.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>There were also 48 instances of additional types of harm, including the Emmerdale character Sally Spode drugging and sleeping with a vicar to break up his family. Some 53 instances of self-harm were also recorded.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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