Netflix’s ‘Bird Box’ is blind to the issue of stigmatizing mental illness

This post contains spoilers for Bird Box.
At first blush, Bird Box’s flaws seem inoffensive, if plentiful: A poorly written script, half-baked world-building, paper-thin characters, and the waste of the talents of an Oscar-winning actress on five-yea…

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‘Broverwatch’ is a group of guys who get together to play games and talk about their feelings

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At three o’clock every Sunday afternoon, a group of four British lads get together to play video games. This might sound like a pretty standard Sunday, but these chaps congregate so they can talk about their mental health, their feelings, and, well, how crap they are at video games. 

They call themselves “Broverwatch.” (And, yeah, they really love playing Overwatch.)

Don’t let the project’s name fool you: Broverwatch couldn’t be further from the bro-y, alpha male get-together you might be imagining. Social media producer Duncan Vicat-Brown—one of the four “bros”—says the project started up because “men don’t talk about their feelings enough.”  Read more…

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There’s a problem with the way bipolar disorder is represented in stock images

A Twitter user living with bipolar disorder has pointed out a major problem with stock imagery depicting the condition. 
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There’s a problem with the way bipolar disorder is represented in stock images

A Twitter user living with bipolar disorder has pointed out a major problem with stock imagery depicting the condition. 
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Brits are angry that a man’s story about mental illness was cut from TV because of the royal engagement

When the news broke that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had got engaged, the nation could scarcely contain its excitement. And, for much of the day, our television screens were plastered with shots and footage of the happy couple.
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