There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.
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In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues.
We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of the 'right' reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better in the face of their discomfort.
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.
When I watch 'Mad Men' and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
People get really irritated by mental illness.
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