Stereotypes/hypodermic theory

This is a negative stereotype of mentally ill/disabled people by the Sun. This presents people with mental health conditions as crazy and not a part of 'normal' society. The Sun, who are notoriously known for having no sympathy towards anything that might be different than a white 'common' male, show mental health as a problem and something that needs to be ridden of and not treated. This links to the hypodermic needle theory because a lot of people (especially older people and un-coincidentally people who would read the Sun) get bad impressions of people with mental health based on these stereotypes and therefore their own opinions and beliefs towards mentally ill people are very bad.
However, not all media extracts surrounding mental health are negative. Some are quite challenging. For example, the Mirror (a left-wing newspaper) usually present mental health in a good light, as something which is being understood more and that is able to be helped now. This is a complete opposite to the Sun's approach. This also relates to the hypodermic theory because many people follow a more 'hippy' approach towards mental health now and see it as a trend that is good to be in support of. This is because the Mirror and other media outlets have presented it to be good to be in support of.

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