The second part of the programme aired again last night. You can find some views on it here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7722074.stm
What did you think? I'd be very interested to hear your views.
A few things that occurred to me:
Did the fact that the psychiatric professionals were all middle-aged white males have any bearing on their choice of 'sufferers'? They chose one man and four women. Was this a relfection of their own beliefs that women's behaviour is 'abnormal' because it is simply 'different' from their own?
Also, do you think programmes such as this encourage peole to believe they may suffer from a mental illness, when in fact their reactions to situations are 'normal', simply not the same as another's?
Did the programme help to tackle the stigma surrounding mental health and mental ill health at all?
Monday, 17 November 2008
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Assisted Suicide
One of the articles I've come across this week - and a news item I think most of you would have heard - is about the young man who was injured whilst playing rugby and subsequently was paralysed from the chest down.
He travelled to Switzerland where an assisted suicide took place. It appears that his parents are now talking to the police and the Crown Prosecution Service are deciding whether to take the case forward.
We've discussed suicide often in the Media Watch Group, but this story has pinpointed an important ethical issue: when do you accept somebody's wish to die? Should you ever accept it? Maybe if they're terminally ill? What about somebody diagnosed with schizophrenia? With depression?
What do you think?
He travelled to Switzerland where an assisted suicide took place. It appears that his parents are now talking to the police and the Crown Prosecution Service are deciding whether to take the case forward.
We've discussed suicide often in the Media Watch Group, but this story has pinpointed an important ethical issue: when do you accept somebody's wish to die? Should you ever accept it? Maybe if they're terminally ill? What about somebody diagnosed with schizophrenia? With depression?
What do you think?
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
World Mental Health Day...... waste of time?
What's your view on World Mental Health Day?
A wonderful opportunity to hold events, gain publicity, celebrate our existence and raise the profile of the mental health community?
A chance to combat stigma and discrimination?
Or a patronising construct that serves to allow self-congratulatory behaviour on behalf of mental health service providers (and users/survivors, come to that)?
A wonderful opportunity to hold events, gain publicity, celebrate our existence and raise the profile of the mental health community?
A chance to combat stigma and discrimination?
Or a patronising construct that serves to allow self-congratulatory behaviour on behalf of mental health service providers (and users/survivors, come to that)?
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
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