"Why would I work my ass off to get better, when it seemed being sick was special and romantic?"

― Renée (19)

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Renée (19) on Skins: “Why should I recover? It was beautiful to be a mess!”

Renée (19) didn't want to go through with her recovery from depression after seeing the British TV-series Skins.

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Mar 27, 2020
3 min

Wrapping up our #Triggered journey

As we round up our final project, we want to look back on everything we’ve learned the past month.

Mar 26, 2020
6 min

TV recommendations from #Triggered and friends

A list of movies and shows that portrayed mental illness right according to our interviewees.

Mar 25, 2020
5 min

'WtFOCK' actor Willem Herbots: “I can only depict what I've struggled with myself"

Belgian actor Willem Herbots (WtFOCK) shares his experiences on trying to portray mental health in a correct way.

Mar 24, 2020
4 min

What happens to our brains when we see mental illness in films or series?

Television can have a major effect on our mental health. What happens to our brains exactly when we see mental illness on screen?

“The portrayal of mental issues in TV can have a massive impact on the viewer's own health”

― Charlotte Armitage (media psychologist)

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Hi! we're janne

and femke

Two friends studying “International Journalism” at the Thomas More College in Mechelen, Belgium.

With both having a history of mental health issues, we knew we wanted to do something around the topic for our final work.

After digging around for a bit, we found that there’s often a problem in the portrayal of psychological illnesses in the TV industry. Mental illnesses are often romanticised; the characters’ lives seem more appealing and aesthetically pleasing than how a mental illness is in real life.

With this blog, we’ll be looking into this phenomenon and trying to open up a conversation about mental health.

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