The Portrayal of Schizophrenia in Me, Myself, and Irene

Most people gather knowledge about mental illness from television and movies. Unfortunately, the description of these media is incorrect and causes shame. They describe people with psychosis as another, dangerous and absurd thing. People are often addicted to the loss of drugs, alcohol, violence, danger or control. Norman Bates of "Psychology", Jack Torrance of "Shining", Hannibal Rector of "Silent Lamb" horror film is a typical "psychological killer" related to people with mental illness.

Because it was thought that it ridiculed psychiatric patients and perpetuated the ugliness of mental illness, this movie caused many dilemmas about inappropriate presentation of mental health problems. As noted by Thornicroft (2006), schizophrenia is often associated with movie and media violence. This link can be seen by me, myself, and eileen when 'Hank' attacked groups of people. Through prejudicial news, these so-called "psychological media" (www.mentalhealthstigma.com), leading to mentally fixed problems and leading to all patients with mental disorders, are hints of violence and insanity ( Hank began to drown insults young girls)). In other words, this stereotype is believed to be true by the masses. Because media is powerful and very common in the ability to create ideas (Jewkes, 2004).

The stigma of the most aggravating psychosis in the media may be in the portrayal of the spiritually bad adversary of the movie. Specifically, people with schizophrenia are called "killers" in "Slashers" or "psycho killer" movies. It depicts erroneous information about the symptoms, causes and treatment of patients with schizophrenia and other forms of severe psychiatric disorders. It is noteworthy that popular movies have been shown to have a strong influence on attitude formation.

Most of the media description is inaccurate and sensational, drawing psychiatric patients as different, dangerous, unpredictable, and violent. According to what we saw with this movie "I myself and Eileen", Hank unexpectedly attacked someone in front of him, made a strange movement and showed anomalies (especially good Charlie To the villain). Hank's character changed during this period. This expression misunderstands mental disorders. Mental illness seems to play an active role in shaping and maintaining what mental illness means in our culture.