Media portrayals of hallucination and delusion

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Kaninchenzero just posted this great piece about media portrayals of mental illness. Excerpt:

Maybe it would be difficult to portray hallucination and delusion the way we experience it. Maybe it would be less interesting to audiences who haven’t experienced them or wouldn’t be recognized for what they are by audiences accustomed to the “the crazy person sees and has conversations with people who aren’t there and they don’t know the person is a hallucination because hey they are crazy right?” Which I’ve also heard.

I am going to tell you about my hallucinations and delusions and I need you (and everyone else reading) to understand or at least to hear some things. It is really damn scary talking about this in public. Seeing things that do not exist and believing things that are not real mark me as seriously mentally ill and carry lots of stigma.