Latest ‘Moon Knight’ Episode Includes Post-Credits PSA for Mental Health Awareness
Marvel has seldom tackled subject matter with such tremendous weight and brevity as it has in its latest series; in accordance with their focus on these delicate matters, the latest Moon Knight episode includes a post-credits PSA for Mental Health Awareness.
There are few projects that embody so many different layered and nuanced facets that are explored and identified as clearly as in Marvel’s latest Dinsye+ series.
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Moon Knight is a series about mystic deities fighting for control and influence, a globetrotting adventure of archaeologists and hidden burial grounds, and the awful struggle of an undiagnosed and unassisted battle with mental illness.
Marc Spector is a character who struggles immensely with his dissociative identity disorder, and piles on to that struggle with the burden of being the mystically superpowered avatar of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu.
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The series not only explores the fantastical elements of his battles against other mythic beings, and brings audiences to the far reaches of the good in adventures for ancient scarabs ad temples, but also shows the real-life impact of his own mental illness through his alternate identity, Steven Grant.
A mild-mannered gift store clerk who struggles to establish any sort of life for himself thanks to large gaps in memory, Grant is suffering, and the series never shies away from highlighting the real devastation that comes from fighting the battle against mental illness alone.
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For fans who stuck around till, after the credits, they saw that the latest Moon Knight episode includes a post-credits PSA for Mental Health Awareness, with instructions on how viewers can get the help they feel they may need.
First reported by ComicBook.com, a title card fills the screen after the credits that read, “For information on mental health resources near you, please visit the National Alliance on Mental Illness at NAMI.org.”
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Moon Knight has clearly put in the work to accurately portray what dissociative identity disorder looks like, and it is vitally important that they have continued to be intentional with how they push for viewers to seek out help with their own mental health struggles.
