Topic Tuesday **closed**: The media and mental health

Ten more minutes until we finish. Now is the time for any concluding remarks while @Former-Member put together responses for @Mazarita.

I agree @CherryBomb it is a tricky task but I think all the journalist CAN do is to be true to the person whose story it is they are telling.

@Mazarita @Former-Member what were your thoughts on Changing Minds?

I apprecited how it showed MI as a lifelong illness for most of the people who featured in it.

I think Changing Minds is upsetting for some of people because they don't see mental illness as being real. Especially if they have no experience of it. I think Changing Minds forces people to acknowledge that living with a mental illness is hard but that you can recover in some cases. It also puts a really human face on mental health services and hospitals which tend to cop a lot of flack when it comes to treatment.

That's a wrap for this month's Topic Tuesday.

Thanks to @Former-Member for offering her insights on the role of the media and mental illness. It's great to hear from a journo, it helped to demystify what they do, and show that they are also everyday people trying to do a very challenging job.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to tonight's discussion. It's great to hear people views on how they think MI should be represented - in manner that somehow expresses the reality of mental illness. A challenging task at that! But certainly not one we should shy away from. Open conversation like, where we can learn about people are views of MI, I think, are a step forward.

Thanks @Former-Member and @CherryBomb and everyone for an interesting discussion.

Thanks for having me everyone! I really enjoyed this discussion.