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Halloween and Depictions of Mental Illness
It’s October, that beautiful, crisp time of year when leaves become ablaze with color, pumpkins grace front porches, and kids, both young and old, think of Halloween and the fun (and goodies) it brings. We must be careful to help our children (and ourselves) choose costumes that do not denigrate anyone, including those suffering from mental illness. Dressing up is fun, dressing up as something or someone that can be disrespectful and hurtful is wrong.
“Dr. D Mented’s Asylum for the Criminally Insane and The Edge of Madness: Still Crazy. Both of these displays suggest that people with mental illness are dangerous and deranged and that the general public should be frightened of such people. Mental illnesses are biological brain disorders … they are diseases … no different from other physiological ailments.”
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