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?
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I watched both episode's of this programme and found them very interesting. I felt great joy when the lady accussed of having no illness (in the first episode) told them that in fact that she has suffered with some form of menatl distress. She was very happy that they had got it wrong. Having received many years of pschiactric 'therapy', i can share her joy of the professionals getting it wrong and the satisfaction that in fact it is not always easy to tell if someone is 'menatlly ill' and in fact in alot of case's not an easy task at all.
This is what i feel was the overall message of the programme. That it isn't easy to tell if someone has or has suffered from a menatl illness and that there is a very thin line between sanity and insanity, that everyone fits onto a sort of spectrum of 'maddness'. Peace.
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