Mental Illness Exploitation: The Halloween Tradition that Needs to Die

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Now that Halloween is over, we need to talk about the exploitation of mental illness.

Every year, haunted asylums open their doors to scare people with exaggerated depictions of mentally ill patients and every year, we see stores selling “mental patient” costumes. Mental patient costumes are becoming less and less common, but haunted asylums…