Criminalizing Mental Health • This Is Crazy • Part 1 of 3 • BRAVE NEW FILMS
America is “treating” mental illness through incarceration - and the price we are paying both in dollars and human capital is enormous. It's time to take action and start treating mental...
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We see it every day. On the news, in the media, confrontations between people with mental illness and authorities. In the worst cases these encounters end in tragedy; Or people with mental health issues find themselves being run into a dysfunctional prison system, instead of getting the appropriate care. All this stress can be really bad for people with mental illness, and then.. um... it happened. Um... I had a psychotic break. I never thought that that could have happened to me. I had symptoms of a lot of different mental health issues... anxiety depression, mania, um... all kinds of stuff; but I had never heard a voice before, and that happened. I had never had a delusion. I began thinking I was god. I could not make that delusion go away, and I started...
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We see it every day. On the news, in the media, confrontations between people with mental illness and authorities. In the worst cases these encounters end in tragedy; Or people with mental health issues find themselves being run into a dysfunctional prison system, instead of getting the appropriate care. All this stress can be really bad for people with mental illness, and then.. um... it happened. Um... I had a psychotic break. I never thought that that could have happened to me. I had symptoms of a lot of different mental health issues... anxiety depression, mania, um... all kinds of stuff; but I had never heard a voice before, and that happened. I had never had a delusion. I began thinking I was god. I could not make that delusion go away, and I started...
