I go to work, spend time with loved ones, and have hobbies I enjoy (like, usually, video games). Gun safety advocates focus on a supposed link between mental illness and gun violence, even though the majority of violent crime is committed by people without mental illness and it has been repeatedly shown that the mentally ill are highly unlikely to harm anyone.Īs a person who diagnosed with anxiety and depression, my life is very much like anyone else’s. Even in 2015, mental illness is seen as Halloween-costume scary in our culture. The Park indicates that mental illness is one of the scariest things its writers can imagine.
Though it stings to imagine gamers playing The Park, and thinking, “That was an A+ portrayal of the mentally ill people I know!” Polygon called it “pure psychological horror.” Game Debate said it “hammers home the point that few things can be more frightening or more disturbing than the fragility of the human mind.” And why shouldn’t it? Mental illness is constantly portrayed as something to be afraid of. The Park did indeed receive excellent reviews.
“I didn’t know it was going to be about that,” my husband apologizes. “As a dangerous headcase who will murder babies?”
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