Behind Closed Doors: Dealing With Mental Illness

Like most teenagers, I was hormonal and moody, but a family history of mental illness left me hiding in my room.

The way the media portrays mental illnesses like hoarding and OCD maintain harmful stereotypes

(Featured illustration courtesy of Amanda Tran / Daily Titan) Published in the Daily Titan. By Treva Flores While the media has created more visibility for mental health issues, it also tends to create and maintain harmful stereotypes that misinterpret actual behaviors, specifically hoarding, a type of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), to extremes. “Movies and TV present …