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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:23:30 -0400
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A new virtual-reality attraction planned for Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Pa=
rk, Calif., was announced last month in advance of the peak haunted-house s=
eason. The name, "Fear VR 5150," was significant. The number 5150 is the Ca=
lifornia psychiatric involuntary commitment code, used for a mentally ill p=
erson who is deemed a danger to himself or others. Upon arrival in an ersat=
z "psychiatric hospital exam room," VR 5150 visitors would be strapped into=
a wheelchair and fitted with headphones. "The VR headset puts you in the m=
iddle of the action inside the hospital," an article in The Orange County R=
egister explained. "One patient seems agitated and attempts to get up from =
a bed. Security officers try to subdue him. A nurse gives you a shot (which=
you will feel), knocking you out. When you wake up in the next scene, all =
hell has broken loose. Look left, right and down, bloody bodies lie on the =
floor. You hear people whimpering in pain." Knott's Berry Farm is operated =
by Ohio-based Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, and Fear VR 5150 was to be =
featured at two other Cedar Fair parks as well. Almost simultaneously, two =
similar attractions were started at Six Flags. A news release for one expla=
ined: "Our new haunted house brings you face-to-face with the world's worst=
psychiatric patients. Traverse the haunted hallways of Dark Oaks Asylum an=
d try not to bump into any of the grunting inmates around every turn. Mania=
cal inmates yell out from their bloodstained rooms and deranged guards wand=
er the corridors in search of those who have escaped." The Orange County br=
anch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) sprang into action, =
and Doris Schwartz, a Westchester, N.Y.-based mental-health professional, i=
mmediately emailed a roster of 130 grass-roots activists, including me, man=
y of whom flooded Cedar Fair and Six Flags with phone calls, petitions and =
emails. After some heated back-and-forth, Fear VR 5150 was shelved, and Six=
Flags changed the mental patients in its maze into zombies. Continue readi=
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More =C3=82=C2=BB 112 COMMENTS Do you think Halloween-style depictions of m=
entally ill people should be an acceptable part of the holiday, or do they =
lead to prejudice and mistreatment? Share your thoughts =C3=82=C2=BB As bot=
h a psychiatric patient and a professor of clinical psychology, I was sadde=
ned to see painful lived experiences transmogrified into spooky entertainme=
nt. I was also unnerved to consider that I was someone else's idea of a gho=
ul, a figure more or less interchangeable with a zombie. I became severely,=
clinically depressed for the first time in 1994. I was unable to speak, un=
able to get out of bed, unable to function in the world, and I thought of s=
uicide constantly. I was afraid all the time but didn't know what I was afr=
aid of; I was numb to my own emotions and stripped of vitality. I have most=
ly done better these last two decades through the rigors of intensive treat=
ment by both a psychoanalyst and a psychopharmacologist. I now take a cockt=
ail of five medications and I go to therapy weekly. My mental illness is la=
rgely (though not entirely) under control, but as my therapist pointed out =
recently when I was cavalier about some warning signs, "In this room, Andre=
w, we never forget that you are entirely capable of taking the express elev=
ator to the bargain basement of mental health." I wrote about my experience=
s with depression in a book, "The Noonday Demon," and spoke about them in a=
TED talk, and I now get floods of mail from people who are dealing with me=
ntal illness =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9D most of them isolated, terrified and =
bewildered; many of them unable to access the kind of decent care that has =
been so transformative for me. For those of us with firsthand experience wi=
th mental illness =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9D especially those who have experi=
enced trauma in a mental hospital =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9D such entertainme=
nt ventures cut much too close to the bone. When my mother was dying of can=
cer, she was admitted to some miserable wards, but I find it hard to envisi=
on a Halloween event at which you would pretend to be getting chemotherapy =
and vomiting constantly while surrounded by patients driven into the quasi-=
dementia that comes of unremitting pain. Sign Up for the Opinion Today News=
letter Every weekday, get thought-provoking commentary from Op-Ed columnist=
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mes's products and services. SEE SAMPLE PRIVACY POLICY I have a pretty good=
sense of humor about myself. We all use the language of mental illness cav=
alierly. We say that our parents or our kids are driving us crazy; we compl=
ain we will soon go mad if the traffic doesn't clear; we accuse Donald Trum=
p of having a personality disorder (which, whether accurate or not, is stil=
l intended as a disparagement). But I have also spent a lifetime trying to =
laugh when a friend has driven me past a psychiatric hospital and commented=
on the loons inside, to crack a smile when people have expressed their emo=
tional extravagance with a jest about suicide. Sanity and mental illness li=
e on a spectrum, and most people occasionally cross over from one side to t=
he other. It's the proximity of mental illness rather than its obscurity th=
at makes it so scary. But it should be scary in a "fix the broken care syst=
em" way or in a "figure out the brain's biology" way, and not in a "scream =
for laughs" kind of way. The rhetoric with which Cedar Fair attempted to mo=
llify the activists was troubling. The company wrote by way of explanation,=
"Our evening attractions are designed to be edgy, and are aimed at an adul=
t-only audience." But "edgy" is not in general a euphemism for "stigmatizin=
g of a disenfranchised population," and the defense that the attraction was=
for adults only seemed a very token mitigation =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9D as=
though adults were not the progenitors of most chauvinism and hatred. The =
attractions at Cedar Fair and Six Flags were not intended as representation=
s of what mental illness is really like; they were incidentally demeaning, =
rather than willfully so. But how readily do such lapses approximate hate s=
peech? And with what potential to provoke misunderstanding, fear and even h=
arm to people with few defenses? The misperception that mentally ill people=
are inherently dangerous is one of the most treacherous ideas in circulati=
on about us. It surfaces widely every time a mass shooter is on the loose, =
and results in the subjugation of people who are not menacing in any way. I=
recognize the free-speech claim that individuals and entertainment compani=
es have every right to demean people with mental illnesses, but these repre=
sentations have very real consequences =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9D the stigmat=
ization of the mentally ill, and the prejudice, poor treatment and violatio=
ns of their rights that naturally follow. Other people's fear of us can hav=
e terrible consequences. There are regular reports of police who respond ag=
gressively or violently to the erratic behavior of mentally ill people, whe=
ther they are armed or not =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9D the latest being the ki=
lling of Deborah Danner, a woman with schizophrenia, by a New York City Pol=
ice Officer. There are more mentally ill people in our prison system than i=
n our health care system. It is possible to honor the power of burlesque ev=
en as we insist on respect for people who are too frequently harmed by it. =
In some hypothetical Venn diagram, there is an extravagant overlap between =
fun and cruelty. Slapstick, farce, satire =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9D all thes=
e involve laughing at people who are slipping on a banana peel, or knocking=
their teeth in, or sitting down on a chair that isn't there to find themse=
lves splayed on the floor. We laugh at big noses or flat noses, at vulgarit=
y and buffoonery, at politics antithetical to our own. Clowns did this cree=
py work before there were creepy clowns on the loose. 112COMMENTS I think o=
f the effect these attractions would have not only on people without mental=
illnesses, who might be inspired to patronize, shun or even harm those of =
us who do have them, but also on the large portion of the American populati=
on who battle these challenges daily. Will they be more hesitant to come ou=
t about a psychiatric diagnosis? Will they be less likely to check themselv=
es in for care? The injury is not only disrespect from the outside, but als=
o a terrible doubting from within. Our nation is in a moment when prejudice=
runs riot. In this election season, assertions of strength have often over=
taken moral righteousness in the public imagination; success has been posit=
ed as incompatible with empathy. That rejection of empathy is an authentic =
poison, pressing some people to understand themselves as less human than ot=
hers, a danger associated with a proliferation of suicides. It's hard to th=
ink well of yourself in a world that sees you as a threat.
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s announced last month in advance of the peak haunted-house season. The nam=
e, "Fear VR 5150," was significant. The number 5150 is the Califo=
rnia psychiatric involuntary commitment code, used for a mentally ill perso=
n who is deemed a danger to himself or others.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"760" data-total-count=3D"1116">Upon arrival =
in an ersatz "psychiatric hospital exam room," VR 5150 visitors w=
ould be strapped into a wheelchair and fitted with headphones. "The VR=
headset puts you in the middle of the action inside the hospital," an=
article in The Orange County Register explained. "One patient seems a=
gitated and attempts to get up from a bed. Security officers try to subdue =
him. A nurse gives you a shot (which you will feel), knocking you out. When=
you wake up in the next scene, all hell has broken loose. Look left, right=
and down, bloody bodies lie on the floor. You hear people whimpering in pa=
in." Knott's Berry Farm is operated by Ohio-based Cedar Fair Entertain=
ment Company, and Fear VR 5150 was to be featured at two other Cedar Fair p=
arks as well.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"462" data-total-count=3D"1578">Almost simult=
aneously, two similar attractions were started at Six Flags. A news release=
for one explained: "Our new haunted house brings you face-to-face wit=
h the world's worst psychiatric patients. Traverse the haunted hallways of =
Dark Oaks Asylum and try not to bump into any of the grunting inmates aroun=
d every turn. Maniacal inmates yell out from their bloodstained rooms and d=
eranged guards wander the corridors in search of those who have escaped.&qu=
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<p data-para-count=3D"455" data-total-count=3D"2033">The Orange Co=
unty branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) sprang into a=
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me, many of whom flooded Cedar Fair and Six Flags with phone calls, petitio=
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spooky entertainment. I was also unnerved to consider that I was someone el=
se's idea of a ghoul, a figure more or less interchangeable with a zombie.<=
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<p data-para-count=3D"308" data-total-count=3D"2630" id=3D"story-c=
ontinues-3">I became severely, clinically depressed for the first time in 1=
994. I was unable to speak, unable to get out of bed, unable to function in=
the world, and I thought of suicide constantly. I was afraid all the time =
but didn't know what I was afraid of; I was numb to my own emotions and str=
ipped of vitality.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"512" data-total-count=3D"3142">I have mostly=
done better these last two decades through the rigors of intensive treatme=
nt by both a psychoanalyst and a psychopharmacologist. I now take a cocktai=
l of five medications and I go to therapy weekly. My mental illness is larg=
ely (though not entirely) under control, but as my therapist pointed out re=
cently when I was cavalier about some warning signs, "In this room, An=
drew, we never forget that you are entirely capable of taking the express e=
levator to the bargain basement of mental health."</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"340" data-total-count=3D"3482">I wrote about=
my experiences with depression in a book, "The Noonday Demon," a=
nd spoke about them in a TED talk, and I now get floods of mail from people=
who are dealing with mental illness â?? most of them isolated, terri=
fied and bewildered; many of them unable to access the kind of decent care =
that has been so transformative for me.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"492" data-total-count=3D"3974">For those of =
us with firsthand experience with mental illness â?? especially those=
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and vomiting constantly while surrounded by patients driven into the quasi=
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<p data-para-count=3D"593" data-total-count=3D"4567">I have a pret=
ty good sense of humor about myself. We all use the language of mental illn=
ess cavalierly. We say that our parents or our kids are driving us crazy; w=
e complain we will soon go mad if the traffic doesn't clear; we accuse Dona=
ld Trump of having a personality disorder (which, whether accurate or not, =
is still intended as a disparagement). But I have also spent a lifetime try=
ing to laugh when a friend has driven me past a psychiatric hospital and co=
mmented on the loons inside, to crack a smile when people have expressed th=
eir emotional extravagance with a jest about suicide.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"368" data-total-count=3D"4935">Sanity and me=
ntal illness lie on a spectrum, and most people occasionally cross over fro=
m one side to the other. It's the proximity of mental illness rather than i=
ts obscurity that makes it so scary. But it should be scary in a "fix =
the broken care system" way or in a "figure out the brain's biolo=
gy" way, and not in a "scream for laughs" kind of way.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"486" data-total-count=3D"5421">The rhetoric =
with which Cedar Fair attempted to mollify the activists was troubling. The=
company wrote by way of explanation, "Our evening attractions are des=
igned to be edgy, and are aimed at an adult-only audience." But "=
edgy" is not in general a euphemism for "stigmatizing of a disenf=
ranchised population," and the defense that the attraction was for adu=
lts only seemed a very token mitigation â?? as though adults were not=
the progenitors of most chauvinism and hatred.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"336" data-total-count=3D"5757">The attractio=
ns at Cedar Fair and Six Flags were not intended as representations of what=
mental illness is really like; they were incidentally demeaning, rather th=
an willfully so. But how readily do such lapses approximate hate speech? An=
d with what potential to provoke misunderstanding, fear and even harm to pe=
ople with few defenses?</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"265" data-total-count=3D"6022" id=3D"story-c=
ontinues-4">The misperception that mentally ill people are inherently dange=
rous is one of the most treacherous ideas in circulation about us. It surfa=
ces widely every time a mass shooter is on the loose, and results in the su=
bjugation of people who are not menacing in any way.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"321" data-total-count=3D"6343">I recognize t=
he free-speech claim that individuals and entertainment companies have ever=
y right to demean people with mental illnesses, but these representations h=
ave very real consequences â?? the stigmatization of the mentally ill=
, and the prejudice, poor treatment and violations of their rights that nat=
urally follow.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"414" data-total-count=3D"6757">Other people'=
s fear of us can have terrible consequences. There are regular reports of p=
olice who respond aggressively or violently to the erratic behavior of ment=
ally ill people, whether they are armed or not â?? the latest being t=
he killing of Deborah Danner, a woman with schizophrenia, by a New York Cit=
y Police Officer. There are more mentally ill people in our prison system t=
han in our health care system.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"608" data-total-count=3D"7365">It is possibl=
e to honor the power of burlesque even as we insist on respect for people w=
ho are too frequently harmed by it. In some hypothetical Venn diagram, ther=
e is an extravagant overlap between fun and cruelty. Slapstick, farce, sati=
re â?? all these involve laughing at people who are slipping on a ban=
ana peel, or knocking their teeth in, or sitting down on a chair that isn't=
there to find themselves splayed on the floor. We laugh at big noses or fl=
at noses, at vulgarity and buffoonery, at politics antithetical to our own.=
Clowns did this creepy work before there were creepy clowns on the loose.<=
/p>112COMMENTS
<p data-para-count=3D"493" data-total-count=3D"7858">I think of th=
e effect these attractions would have not only on people without mental ill=
nesses, who might be inspired to patronize, shun or even harm those of us w=
ho do have them, but also on the large portion of the American population w=
ho battle these challenges daily. Will they be more hesitant to come out ab=
out a psychiatric diagnosis? Will they be less likely to check themselves i=
n for care? The injury is not only disrespect from the outside, but also a =
terrible doubting from within.</p>
<p data-para-count=3D"475" data-total-count=3D"8333">Our nation is=
in a moment when prejudice runs riot. In this election season, assertions =
of strength have often overtaken moral righteousness in the public imaginat=
ion; success has been posited as incompatible with empathy. That rejection =
of empathy is an authentic poison, pressing some people to understand thems=
elves as less human than others, a danger associated with a proliferation o=
f suicides. It's hard to think well of yourself in a world that sees you as=
a threat.</p>
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