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May 21, 2015 Comments: 9

Discussion: Stigmatizing Treatment of Mental Illness in Fiction

Post by Sarah Hannah Gómez, Kelly Jensen and Alex Townsend

Many characters who may be mentally ill reject treatment out of hand, considering therapy a waste of time and suspecting medication will turn them into a zombie. Why are these narratives so popular? What are the alternatives?

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May 18, 2015 Comments: 22

Depression Has No Straight Lines, Only Lies

Post by Kelly Jensen

What about readers like me, who never see their own illnesses depicted? To see story after story where depression draws a straight line to suicide is, for better or for worse, expressing that depression only functions in one way.

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Discussion: Stigmatizing Treatment of Mental Illness in Fiction

Depression Has No Straight Lines, Only Lies