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My particular grief, if you like, cuz with, eh, the media in particular that I think how the media discuss and portray and diagnose, indeed, without qualification mental healths or mental illnesses is a human rights issue. And, I'll give you just one example. What there's a dreadful practice going on in this country at the moment. It's a complete breach of human and civil rights. Paparazzi lynching is what I call it. Young celebrities, young female celebrities, whether it's Britney or Amanda Bynes or, or Lindsey Lohan or anyone who has either been diagnosed with an illness or is perceived by people to have a mental illness. And lynching them in the streets. Trying to get the photos of them looking like their having break downs. Taking these pictures, selling for tons of money in the newspapers with darogatory words writen on them about mental illness and about these women. And making a buffoonery and a mockery of them. Now that's obviously extremely wounding and dangerous for those young women. Because it doesn't stay on the page or stay on the screen, it translates down into how people treat you in your life. Unfortunately, there's such a stigma about mental illness or perceived mental illness, that people are bullied and treated like { BLEEP ], frankly, and the illnesses are used as something with which to beat people. And in a manner that physical illness wouldn't be. 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