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The Media Can Advance Stigma of Mental Illness

By Teri Robert, Health Guide Tuesday, August 28, 2007
There are days when, as a health reporter, I'm ashamed to be considered a member of the "media." Today is one of them.  The news is ripe (and pungent) with coverage of Owen Wilson's hospitalization. The Associated Press reports that he was taken by ambulance from his Santa Mon...
Depression is Not an Invisible Illness
8/28/07 1:46pm
 Famous 15 Why do people always put others on pebble stool and expect them to so prefect? They are not Gods just people who got a lucky break in life and do something a little better than someone else. We need to stop making these people feel like they have to let us know every little they are doing. If they could have their times so they can feel normal. We have the press casing people in cars, jail sails, they can even take a day off and go to the beach for the day with their families. The media it only out for money and if invade their private life so we can know all their dirty little secrets. I don't want to live their lives because just to be honest it really suck!
Deborah Gray, Health Guide
8/28/07 4:01pm
I agree. The poor guy. The rest of us can choose whether or not we reveal our depression. His is really being dragged into the spotlight.
Teri Robert, Health Guide
8/28/07 5:11pm

Amen, Deborah. You and I have chosen to reveal our depression and use our experiences in communicating with others. Being a celebrity seems to me to negate many of the freedoms we often take for granted.

 

Teri 

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By Teri Robert, Health Guide— Last Modified: 05/16/11, First Published: 08/28/07