SANE Australia wrote to the Seven Network, following the depiction of an individual with schizophrenia on the show All Saints on 31.10.06.

Viewers of the show wrote to SANE reporting their distress that the individual was depicted as violent, out of control, and impossible to reason with.

Perhaps the most common misunderstanding is that people with mental illness are violent and dangerous. While this may be true in some cases, the generalisation has been made far too widely.

See SANE's factsheet on schizophrenia for more information.