Entertainment and Mental Health
Ironically, studies have shown that certain types of movies,
music and reading materials are linked to mental illnesses. For
example, pornographic material has been proven to affect
individuals dramatically to the point of murder, rape and other
violent crimes. Such materials affect even an individual without
mental illnesses simply because someone falls victim to a
predator along the path.
Violent movies and music has also proven to 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. Even God acknowledged and made it aware to everyone
that such behaviors would cause disaster. Proven faithful to His
words, the word is going mad because of polluted behaviors
created by entertainment.
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.
I am promising you that everyone in their lifetime has been
exposed to this behavior, everyone with the exceptions of
newborns. It is time we look at what goes on around us to
improve mental health.
We will be pounding our heads against the walls for a lifetime
if we do not admit that harmful entertainment is part of the
problem. 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. Somewhere down the line people
were communicating, however very few were listening, otherwise
this would not have happen in the first place. Somebody in this
picture was complaining and trying to express their emotions and
thoughts, yet somebody on the other side was ignoring the cries.
What it boils down to is how a person believes. If a person
believes after being taught that violence is the answer to
resolve a problem, then violence is what you are going to see
and everyone will be affected as a result.
You do not play around with faith, either you are in the race to
win, or else you are on the road to death. 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.