Trope for "Mental illness equals evil"?

Given that the vast majority of media depictions of people with mental illness depicts them as dangerous evil threats to be destroyed, despite the facts that in real life they are generally harmless to everybody but themselves, only stand for an extremely small percentage of violent crime, and are more than 11x as likely to be subjected to them, shouldn't there be a trope for this extremely common and unfair tendency within media and society at large?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_illness#Perception_and_discrimination

http://depts.washington.edu/mhreport/facts_violence.php

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1389236/

Please read this thread.

Though for the record, you're looking for Insane Equals Violent.

Okay. Thank you for the help. Maybe it would be an idea to start a Useful Notes article about mental illness. More than 1 in 3 people in the World suffer from mental illnesses at some point after all, and media in general keeps attacking and demonising them for it from every angle.

We do have Hollywood Personality Disorders, which seems to cover what you are looking for. Also, given your last sentence, you may want to read Righting Great Wrongs.

But if I understand correctly, that only covers if somebody makes stuff up from personal bias, not from fact. As I linked to above, there is plenty of research confirming this, and we can see it ourselves on this site in Insanity Tropes, so shouldn't mentioning it matter of fact, to actually do give people the right idea as Righting Great Wrongs says, probably be okay, as long as it doesn't take too much room?

I don't have to edit it into Hollywood Personality Disorders myself. I just think that, given that mentally ill are are matter-of-fact vilified in media more than any other group, and subjected to more than eleven times as much violent crime as average, with the first heavily contributing to the second, the information in the 4 links above should be mentioned somehow.

edited 5th Jul '14 4:42:18 AM by CodenameBravo

What you want to do is not what this wiki is for. We are concerned with fiction, not real life, except where reality unavoidably impinges upon fiction. An article on mental illness is no more relevant here than it is on a fishing site. A Useful Notes article would concern itself with how mental illness is portrayed inaccurately in fiction, and it seems like Hollywood Personality Disorders already talks about this, as others have pointed out.

edited 5th Jul '14 8:22:20 AM by Fighteer

Well, how mental illness is portrayed inaccurately in fiction is what I am concerned about.

Would it be acceptable if I made minor changes to include factually accurate mentions of this to the Hollywood Personality Disorders page?

edited 5th Jul '14 12:11:43 PM by CodenameBravo

Not really. The actual facts are more properly put in a Useful Notes Page. The trope pages are for the actual trope, not all the ways it's unrealistic.

The whole section headed "Things To Keep In Mind" in the Hollywood Personality Disorders page is already more about reality than the trope, and is as long as the section on the trope is. We don't need it expanded even further. In, fact, it really should be moved to Useful Notes itself.

edited 5th Jul '14 12:33:57 PM by Madrugada