What does stigma look like?
This series uses a search engine’s autocomplete feature to highlight common opinions on people with mental illnesses. The autocomplete results show how mental illnesses are commonly associated with violence and crime, and reveal horrifying opinions like “schizophrenics should be killed.”
President Abraham Lincoln, who had depression
Writer Sylvia Plath, who had depression
Writer Virginia Woolf, who had bipolar disorder
Artist Vincent Van Gogh, who had bipolar disorder
Mathematician John Nash (who the book and movie “A Beautiful Mind”were based on), who had schizophrenia