"The Black Box" perpetuates stereotypes of people with mental illness. In the first episode, the main character states to her boyfriend , "I am Bipolar." This should be changed to, "I am a person with Bipolar." The original statement in the script does not express the preference of how one describes their mental illness. NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and people with mental illness prefer that one say, "I am a person first, not my mental illness." After all, we do not say, "There goes Cancer when referring to a person who has been told by his/her doctor that he/she has cancer, do we? Please change the script to reflect this and stop perpetuating stereotypes and the stigma of mental illness.
