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This is an essay (idk if you can really call it that) I wrote about demonized/inaccurate mental illnesses in media and why they’re harmful.
“Despite advancements in mental health sciences, policy, and care, these characters’ illnesses are misrepresented so that several generations of readers can establish a clear distinction between themselves and the ‘abnormal,’ between acceptable and unacceptable identities. This is the process that forces young readers to expel any of these unwanted traits and behaviors and thus enable them to ‘set up clear boundaries and establish a stable identity.’”
-Troubled Teens and Monstrous Others: Problematic Depictions of Characters with Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature by Sarah Thaller
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