Normally I am not a fan of Katie Price but personal feelings aside of her, I was watching a documentary that she produced about her son Harvey, who has a number of disabilities. The aim of the documentary was to get to the bottom why her son was used in a joke by comedian Frankie Boyle. Personally I thought the joke was disgusting and people were actually laughing, how can anyone call that humour?
This is the problem with today’s society people are always discriminating against other people just because they have something wrong with them. One of the main groups who are always stigmatised for having something wrong with them is people who have mental health issues and disabilities.
Discrimination happens everywhere whether in the work place to health. Mind the mental health charity has a campaign going called ‘Time to Change’ which basically focuses on changing the way how people think towards people with mental health problems. The results from the campaign so far say that the campaign is working however only a little. I personally think that more needs to be done not just by Mind but the government needs to be stepping in as well.
The discrimination and stigma towards people with mental health problems will only be reduced if people start changing their attitudes.
Until next time.
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