Mental illnesses, also known as psychiatric disorders, are often inaccurately portrayed in the media. Films, television programs, books, magazines, and news programs often stereotype the mentally ill as being violent or unpredictable, unlike the great majority of the actual mentally ill. As a result, some of the public stigmatize the mentally ill and believe that the mentally ill should be shunned, locked away in mental institutions, heavily medicated, or a combination of the three. However, not only are most of those with psychiatric disorders able to function adequately in society, but many are able to work successfully and make substantial contributions to society. News Heather Stuart published an article "Media Portrayal of Mental Illness and its Treatments" in 2006, discussing the image of mental illness is largely negative and they are often labeled as violent and criminal. Researchers have pointed out that mental illness are marginalized and silent, unable to claim their rights, and need the public and media to advocate for them. The general public has little access to psychiatric patients, and their information about psychiatric patients is largely obtained from the mass media, with limited knowledge gained through their own experiences, as confirmed by numerous surveys. Since the public's knowledge about psychiatric patients is mainly obtained through the mass media, it is feared that stereotypes in the media may in turn reinforce the public's rejection of psychiatric patients. Therefore, negative media representations have become the focus of scholarly attention. On the one hand, researchers focus on the negative media representations because they believe that excessive negative media representations are detrimental to the treatment and rehabilitation of mentally ill patients, and they believe that the protection of human rights of mentally ill patients and the care of vulnerable groups are also important. They believe that people with mental illness are no different from other patients and should not be treated differently, nor should they be socially ostracized and treated unfairly because of their illness. They also believe that negative media representations can be changed and that effective media criticism and intervention can also improve the media's attitude toward people with mental illness. Scholars have argued that commercialized media can distort the image of people with mental illness by using content about them as a selling point, thereby reinforcing public rejection. In 2012, India Knight wrote a column in The Sunday Times of London about depression. In response, Alastair Campbell,