Nobody Wins When Horror Games Stigmatize Mental Illness
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Public attitudes regarding mental illness are frequently apocryphal and damaging, and a major source of these views is media portrayal of a topic that affects all of us to some extent.
A few months ago, an open letter was posted in response to a Kotaku article on the upcoming horror game, Outlast, which takes place in an asylum and includes violent criminal inpatients as enemies. The letter, referring primarily to potentially stigmatizing language used in a video from the article, was respectful, succinct, and absolutely dead-on regarding a critical issue that we don’t discuss enough: portrayal of mental illness in media, including video games.