Writing to Fox is a very good start. Writing to newspapers is also helpful. It may not reach a wide audience but it does reach an influential one, namely the people who control what the public sees through the media. I believe that, if stigma is to be diminished, it is very important that people speak out, particularly to the media who have such a powerful influence on public perceptions. If each of us wrote a letter or made a call, it would amount to thousands of such contacts and help those in the media be better informed about mental illness and about problems in their treatment of it.
Suicide is far more common than homicide.
It is particularly common among those who are depressed or those with schizophrenia. Those with mental illnesses are indeed far more likely to harm themselves than they are to harm others. One reason is that our understanding of mental illness and its causes remains limited and we often fear things that we do not understand. Some have pointed out also that people may find it reassuring to place their fears and blame on people whom they perceive as unlike themselves. Plus, stigmatizing of people with mental illnesses has not been challenged forcefully until recently.