Stimitizing Schizophrenics

Stigmatizing opinions about mental illness are frequent in the community. People with schizophrenia are stigmatized by opinions that they will be dangerous, unpredictable and hard to talk to. The community gains most of their stigmatizing beliefs about mental illnesses from the media (i.e. movies, news, and newspapers). Few really know what it’s like to be in the footsteps of a person suffering from schizophrenia. Jane Doe* is a 34 year-old woman who has lived …

…people with this illness were crazy animals that were locked up in loony bins and weren’t allowed to be out on the streets with us “normal” people. I laugh now, because I see people today making the same assumptions. But I mean how could they not. With all the movies out about crazy hospitals, and crazy people, how could the public think anything different? *Jane Doe was used to protect the subjects real name.