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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.
Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.
It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.
