'Ben Shapiro The Anti-Science Mainstreaming Of Mental Illness' Analysis

In the article "Ben Shapiro: The Anti-Science Mainstreaming of Mental Illness"(2017), Ben Shapiro, an American conservative and Political Columnist, asserts that society should “stop treating mental illness as mental health” (10) and in the act states that mentally ill people should get the aid that they need, rather than letting their “freak flag fly” (13). Shapiro illuminates this statement by providing an example of how a 23-years-old woman, Anna Teshu, has gone missing because the media and society treated her as mentally healthy person which means they let her be (“treat her as a unique flower blooming”); however, she was mentally ill since she has done some deranged things (put herself on a leash, left a dog in a hot car), by listing
other people that had mental illnesses like Tashu, but the media considered them normal or a mental health ( transgender, people that wanted to cut their limbs), and finally by giving an anecdote about his grandfather and how today’s society would have told him to “celebrate his diversity” (12) even though he had paranoid schizophrenia which needs lithium treatment. Using mental illness people (Anna Teshu), Shapiro conveys the difference between mental health and mental illness in order to show societies’ corruption on treating ill people unfair and not giving them the medical attention they need. Shapiro’s apparent audience is the media and society because he is trying to address an issue in a tackle, censorious tone; in fact, due to this tone, the audience acquire explicit knowledge at the end of the article.