Mental illness

Mental Illness To Me

mental illness

noun

1. a condition which causes serious disorder in a person's behaviour or thinking.

disorder

noun

1. a state of confusion.
2. disrupt the systematic functioning or neat arrangement of.

Mental illness means a lot of different things to me because it isn't as simple as one thing to me. Mental illness is just a label that society gives people who are not considered 'the norm' this is because in one way or another the majority if not everyone deals with a form of mental illness and the label in my opinion comes from how different people deal with these 'problems'. 

I am very excited to be exploring this topic this term because t is such a controversial topic and in my opinion it is not explored enough in things such as theatre. However i think that when we are exploring this topic we have to be very careful in the way that we portray the topic and the people who may be acting as if the have an illness because some audience members may take offence and may be uncomfortable. On the other hand maybe that could be the desire effect - to overwhelm the audience with the truth of this and make them uncomfortable so that the message is portrayed correctly.