I was recently made aware of this ‘article’ appearing in various forms through social media – now I say ‘article’ because I am generously applying the term to what should be referred to as propaganda. The issue of mental health policy has been in the forefront of minds recently – bombastic reporting, social media mobbing, and good ol’ stigma come in droves when tragedy strikes. That specific issue is so emotionally entrenched that I almost dare not address it, but I do feel it is connected to this post – in the same way that social media drove the anti-vaccination issue, and the autism-misinformation ‘debate’. I am of the opinion that articles like the above trend because sections of the populous are attempting to find meaning, and even fault, within a system they do not understand.

That makes such things even more dangerous, because they are disingenuous at their core, and I’m going to tell you why. Continue reading →