Society has sometimes viewed things with a closed vision due to generational aspects and lack of understanding. With the lack of mental health education, societies, cultures and communities often stereotype and discriminate against people with mental health disabilities. The population I talked about earlier is a population with one of the most negative attitudes towards them. The media and society view these individuals as psychopaths, sociopaths and crazy with some people even going so far as to indicate that these individuals should not live. With Antisocial Personality Disorder, the media has described these individuals as “the serial killer in a movie who is super charming, but with a completely empty emotion that kills mercilessly.” ( ) This creates the idea that all people with APD are born serial killers, however this is not always the case. This stigma makes it difficult for people with APD who suffer, but not to such an extreme degree, to recover from their disorder. Although APD is difficult to treat and takes a long time, it is not impossible to treat. As I grew up in my society and culture, I was taught and influenced to look down on people who have mental illnesses and make judgments/stereotypes about those who have mental illnesses, and while I did this with some
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