9 Signs Of Lupus All Women Should Be Able To Recognize<\/h3>\n
\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
Jessica Alba\u2019s Morning Workout Is A Sight To Behold<\/h3>\n
\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
36 Things Every Woman Should Know How To Do By The Time She Turns 30<\/h3>\n
\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
Here\u2019s How Many Calories You Should Be Eating For Weight Loss<\/h3>\n
\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n
\nA video posted by Eddie Going | #GoingWithEddie\u2122 (@eddiegoing)<\/a> on Aug 25, 2016 at 2:03pm PDT<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Pugh also told Fusion that she has done over 50 similar \u201cpranks,\u201d and that she enjoys doing them because she likes the reactions from people when they go viral. Which, as far as motives go, is certainly more believable than the nod to raising awareness about mental health issues.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s pretend for one second that Pugh actually did want to raise awareness about society\u2019s treatment of people with mental illness. This should probably (right?) go without saying, but I\u2019m going to say it anyway: Pretending to have a mental illness and unleashing crickets and chaos on unsuspecting commuters is a terrible way to do that! Not only is it sociopathic, but it also perpetuates misinformation about people with mental illness\u2014namely, that having a mental illness means you\u2019re dangerous or a threat to society.<\/p>\n
The truth is that people with severe mental illness like the kind Pugh was pretending to have are much more at risk from the public than the public is from them. Consider: People with severe and untreated mental illness are 2.7 times more likely to be the victims of violent crime than people in the general population, according to a study that looked at 331 patients with severe psychiatric disorders in the four months after they\u2019d received psychiatric hospitalization.<\/p>\n
And another thing: Having a mental illness doesn\u2019t naturally make someone dangerous. Yes, people with mental illnesses are disproportionately represented in the prison population. But remember what you know about correlation and causation, and think about why that may be. One possibility: Untreated mental illness can make basic self-care and functioning significantly more difficult, which can lead to conditions\u2014like poverty, unemployment, homelessness\u2014that may ultimately give rise to criminal behavior.<\/p>\n
Another study supports this line of reasoning: The researchers looked at crimes committed by people with severe mental illnesses and found that the vast majority of the crimes weren\u2019t caused by the mental illness itself. Instead, the people had committed those crimes likely because of those other factors\u2014poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and substance abuse. Only between 4 and 10% of the crimes evaluated in the study were attributed to the actual mental illness as the cause\u2014meaning that mental illness is correlated with criminal behavior, but in the majority of cases doesn\u2019t directly cause it. The study authors argue in their conclusion that the findings show that to reduce recidivism, it\u2019s not enough to just treat a person\u2019s mental illness; you also need to help people cope with those other underlying factors as well.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s good and important to raise awareness about mental illness, and especially to raise awareness about our tragically under-resourced mental healthcare system. But pretending to have a mental illness and then causing chaos and fear is the opposite way to do that. It reinforces the idea that people with mental illnesses are dangerous, perpetuating stigma about mental illness in general\u2014stigma that prevents people from reaching out to get help they need, out of shame and fear. All terrible things.<\/p>\n
Bottom line: Don\u2019t unleash crickets on trains, people.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The New York Post reported that a woman riding the D train unleashed a box full of live crickets and worms into the subway car at rush hour on August 24th. Initial reports suggested that the woman appeared to suffer from a mental illness, and that someone bumped into her or pushed her, sending the Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}