#118 - The Different Portrayals of Mental Health and Mental Illness in Popular Media

Wednesday Mental Wellness with Gurjeet Gill is a show that hopes to create a safe and informative space on conversations regarding mental health, as well as provide tips, professional insight, and personal stories that aim to promote and improve your mental well-being. Tune in every Wednesday with Gurjeet to hear some advice and expertise on mental health and personal wellness. 

In this episode of Mental Wellness Wednesday with Gurjeet, Gurjeet looks at the portrayals of mental health in mainstream and popular media, also the different conceptions of mental health and mental illness, and why one isn’t necessarily mutually exclusive with the other. Gurjeet then talks about the importance of stigma in mental health and why it is so significant, the different ways mental health is portrayed in media such as Batman and Bojack Horseman, the negative portrayals of therapy within media and how it affects the general populous, and how traditional news media portrays mental illness in a negative light. Gurjeet then discusses the latest season of “Never Have I Ever,” and how it positively portrayed therapy, and other positive depictions of mental health in media that she has come across. 

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