LOL Mental illness - counter petition available!

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well actually no... mental illness in general perhaps shouldn't be the subject of humour or entertainment... however I think most people can distinguish between not stigmatising people with mental conditions and some haloween attraction involving an 'Asylum'... a rather out-dated concept which we don't really have any more....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-24612748

Calls to shut down a theme park Halloween attraction have been made in a petition whose organisers say it stigmatises mental illness.

The Asylum maze has been part of Thorpe Park's annual Fright Nights for more than eight years.

Campaigners claim having actors chasing people around an asylum stigmatises mental ill health.

Thorpe Park said the attraction was not offensive or a realistic portrayal of a mental health institution.

A petition organised by Katie Sutton, a mental health nursing student at the University of Salford, has attracted more than 900 signatures.
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Its like the Asda fiasco all over again... people all trying too hard to get butt hurt and 'outraged' over this...
 
PC gone wild, as I'm bipolar I'm classed as having a mental illness I wouldn't blink twice at someone selling a pyscho costume or advertising an asylum ride, how anyone could get remotely offended is quite beyond me...

just crazy....

see what i did? :p
 
Such blatant bloody stupidity, and quite obviously just someone stirring the damn pot after the halloween costume idiocy.

The Asylum was a great little maze when I went through it. Can't remember if it was last year or the year before, but there are some pretty cool strobe lighting effects. It got me all disoriented and I couldn't tell where to go, so the chick playing one of the patients reacted to me yelling "I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO!" by moving weirdly in the proper direction, which looked really messed up amidst the strobing.

Was pretty sweet.
 
I guess no english "journalists" ever went to a disney haloween horror night :D they would probably go mad that they have actors dressed as zombies etc running around scaring people , THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

asylums were not for normal mental health issues anyway.... only the psychotic etc not people with bipolar disorder and the rest that get offeded
 
It's like people getting all upset about the Marmite ads because it "made fun of animal cruelty". Of course it did no such thing. Some people just need to get a normal sense of perspective.
 
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I work at a psychiatric hospital where we do try and de-stigmatise mental health. Plus, I have also used their services as a service user myself. But yeah, we do appear to be in a "PC gone mad" season specific for 2013 with Asda, Tesco and now this. Like it's trendy, almost like a meme!

While on the PC brigade thing though, I think this picture is most apt here :-)

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The looney who made the petition needs locked up.If people like her keep going at this rate everything will be a jail sentance.We already have hate laws where anyone opposing immigration is summoned to court.What will be next hating someone will be made illegal? Will thinking about it be made illegal too? And what about parody's like Borat or Family guy who mock religion as there are already folk in the UK calling for hate laws to ban criticism of certain religions althought it does only seem to be just the one that is not up for criticism!

Just a few more laws and the Met to change thier name to the stasi and we will be set to go as this is how it was in East Berlin as well.
 
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