Examining the stigma of mental health illness in Malaysia


A scene from the 2019 movie Joker, which embraces one of the cinematic stereotypes of a person with mental illness being a homicidal maniac. — AP

“Mental illness only happens to certain kind of people.”

“People with mental illness are violent and unpredictable.”

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