Amanda Bynes, Robin Williams, and the Spectacle of Mental Illness

I know the picture is harsh, but it expresses how the media ridicules and mocks celebrities with mental “illnesses” (we call them obstacles) – until someone dies.

“Mental illness is not a joke. Mental illness is not funny. Mental illness does not exist to amuse you,” said Sam Dylan Finch of Let’s Queer Things Up!

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Amanda Bynes, Robin Williams, and the Spectacle of Mental Illness

P.S.
Thank you to Sara Feldman for sharing this article <333