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Entertainment And Mental Health |
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Recent studies have shown that certain types of movies,
music and reading materials are linked to mental illnesses. For example,
take the case of pornographic materials. Such things has been proven to
affect individuals dramatically to the point of murder, rape and other
violent crimes. Such materials can affect even an individual without
mental illnesses simply because someone falls victim to a predator along
the path. It is also proved that violent movies and music can greatly
affect the mind.
More and more children today
are violent, and studies have shown that video games, movies and music
play a large role in the children’s behaviors. Studies has also shown
that children are committing murder, rape, taking drugs, alcohol, and
interrupting others peoples life as a result from obsessive
entertainment behaviors. Although few argue that this is ludicrous, they
have no idea what they are talking about, since the ones arguing are the
sources that are producing such interrupting noises.
Not so long
ago a young man claimed after hearing the song “Kill your Mother”
countless of times, the lyrics went to his head and he acted out
accordingly to the song. This is only one account linked to
entertainment and mental health. Mental health is nothing to toy with
and the rules were laid out from the beginning. Do not get me wrong, not
all entertainment is bad. However, the truth is if you are associating
with bad, then bad will come to you and everyone around you because of
the action.
However, if you are associating with good, then
rewards are sure to follow. Not everyone with mental illnesses however
engage in wrongful behaviors, actions, or self-exposing themselves to
entertainment that harms. At least not directly, but somewhere in their
lifetime they were exposed indirectly to this type of behavior.
Children
learn what they hear, see, and are taught. Likewise, adults learn what
they see, hear and are taught. No one is an exception the rule, and all
of us are subjects to influences. Life is too short to be playing around
with dangers. Either we are in this together are we are all working
toward a disastrous future. Satisfaction guaranteed since it is showing
in all areas of life. Take the terrorist attack in New York recently.
What do you think linked this mental ailment to reality? While there are
many explanations and reasons, the main reason is the culprits were
exposed to violence during their lifetime and this is what they knew
according to what they saw, worked. In addition, it did to a degree.
Finally,
we can see that entertainment is today more graphic, and depicts
inexplicit pictures on nearly every channel, radio station, and so on
today. It seems the morals and values are going down the tube, while the
world is going deeper and deeper into chaos and war. No one can fix a
problem as quickly as the problem occurred, but somewhere someone has to
get started to resolving what has already been done.
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