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A friend sent me this study on portrayals of mental illness in AAA video games.

To summarize:

- Identifiable portrayals of mental illness were, in all but one case, neutral or negative.
- Portrayals of mental health _outcomes_ were basically always negative.
- Mental health treatment was rarely portrayed at all and typically portrayed as ineffective.
- Schizophrenia-like illness was the most popular to portray, and schizophrenic people in games are usually violent.
- You are usually allowed to kill the mentally ill people.

That's pretty horrible!!!!!!!

Here's the study! (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.967992/full)