http://mindhacks.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:47:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/#comment-5872 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:16:08 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/#comment-5872 Lilian Nattel, that may be true in large cities. In small towns, newspaper sell more when they have local “human interest” type stories in the paper. Don’t forget, people like to read about themselves, too.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/#comment-5871 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:15:37 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/#comment-5871 Lilian Nattel, that may be true in large cities. In small towns, newspaper sell more when they have local “human interest” type stories in the paper. Don’t forget, people like to read about themselves, too.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/#comment-5870 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:41:03 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/#comment-5870 Hey Vaughan,
Talking of celebrities and mental health, here’s a TV interview with a person who may (or may not) be suffering with some mental health problems at the moment. See if you make the same diagnosis as me (a ridiculous thing to do, from watching someone on TV, I know).

However, this has not stopped another TV doctor from doing just that:
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/celebrity/2009/03/dr-dobransky-thinks-joaquin-phoenix-could-be-schizophrenic/
Whilst I suspect the psychiatrist in question might be right, its another of those TV psychologist/psychiatrist issues we talked about.
In general, its good when mental health issues are brought into the public domain, even though it can take seeing a famous celebrity being affected in order to make it happen. However, there is the risk of it being seen as a joke, or being morbidly voyeuristic (think Britney Spears).
As someone who suffers with depression myself, I have a personal interest in these issues, as well as a professional one.
Tom

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/#comment-5869 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:44:06 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/#comment-5869 Newspapers report the news they think will sell. Celebrities sell. It’s up to people to start buying stories about regular folks.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/#comment-5868 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:06:08 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/get-me-a-mentally-ill-celebrity/#comment-5868 ..which, by the way, is why we’re here reading your blog and not the newspaper. Because we couldn’t give a rats arse about Sporty Spice’s opinion on these matters, and we much prefer informed opinion complete with live links to the hard detailed facts.
And then they wonder why the main stream media is imploding…

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