Our Videos
Would knowing someone has a mental health and/or substance use issue change the way you see them? Visit www.distortedperceptions.org to learn more about our distorted perception's campaign, a campaign to address the myths and misperceptions about mental illness and addictions.
“Distorted Perceptions: How Stigma Impacts Recovery” is designed to prompt meaningful conversation among all those who have been affected by behavioral health issues. In the DVD, persons with lived experience, family members, providers, and administrators share their candid perspectives on the impact of stigma both personally and professionally.
Other Videos
The videos below have been carefully chosen by Anti-Stigma Project members to represent some of the best videos from the internet on behavioral health and stigma. Come back each month to see our new lineup of videos!
https://www.TeenTreatmentCenter.com | (877) 788-5247 At the Teen Treatment Center, we are dedicated to helping teens and their families live happy, healthy lifestyles. Through our gender-separate treatment programs, we are able to help teens who are grappling with substance abuse, mental illness and behavioral disorders. We understand that no two teenagers are alike.
With your support, in 2016 we will present a compelling feature length film that will help us all learn to be more aware, more involved, and more effective in the prevention of suicide.
As part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2016, Noisey are running series of short films about music and mental health. In the first of our short films about music and mental health, we meet two musicians who found fame and fortune in the UK indie scene of the early 2000's: Bill Ryder-Jones from The Coral and Rob Harvey from The Music.
"Shine" highlights the inspirational and personal stories of transitional age youth (also known as TAY) in overcoming mental health challenges born from trauma. The documentary follows one young man's battle with depression after an armed robbery leaves him paralyzed, and a young woman living with PTSD and depression after years of sexual abuse.
http://www.ted.com Even when our lives appear fine from the outside, locked within can be a world of quiet suffering, leading some to the decision to end their life. At TEDYou, JD Schramm asks us to break the silence surrounding suicide and suicide attempts, and to create much-needed resources to help people who reclaim their life after escaping death.
Police are often the first responders in mental health crises. San Antonio's new mental health unit is providing a successful model for the future. To view all episodes from this series visit: http://mhc.tv/series/the-common-good Learn more about MHC at: http://mhc.tv/
A production of M.E.T. directed by Julie Herber: "Life without the ruby slippers".Photos by Andrew Murdock.
Uploaded by dcgovernment on 2014-10-02.
THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE IS A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM about the over 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. Deeply entrenched social stigma have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades.
Preview video from Reelizations Media catalog for Addiction Treatment & Behavioral Health. Reelizations.com 1-800-214-5680
Yvonne talks about her family and friend's reactions to her Schizo-Affective disorder diagnosis, and how discrimination affects her life.
Trailer for the documentary Shadow Voices: Finding Hope in Mental Illness.
This innovative video is a joint project of the IWK Health Centre and the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). It was designed to help combat the stigma attached to mental illness and will be used to educate health care providers and hospital staff across the country who work with children and youth.
Trailer for the documentary "The Secret World of Recovery" www.SecretWorldofRecovery.com
http://www.ted.com "Is it okay if I totally trash your office?" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but ever-present.
Law student Christopher Poulos recently finished an internship at the White House, despite a felony drug conviction in 2008. He spoke with Post Video in September 2015, shortly before his internship, about a new movement to "come out" about being in recovery from a substance abuse disorder.
Patient care is more than just healing -- it's building a connection that encompasses mind, body and soul. If you could stand in someone else's shoes . . . hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently?
Why are some able to transcend their addiction while others are not? What do people really need to escape the shame of their addiction and achieve sustained recovery? Jacki's talk focuses on answering these questions and demonstrates how resilience of the human spirit intersects with social contextual factors to set the stage for those struggling with addiction to choose a pathway to health.
Uploaded by AddictionMedicine on 2015-08-26.
In February 2011, SAMHSA launched the Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Video Public Service Announcement (PSA) Contest. We asked young adults to create an original 15- or 30-second PSA that embraced the theme "We are the ones, how are you taking action?"
Preview video from Reelizations Media catalog for Addiction Treatment & Behavioral Health. Reelizations.com 1-800-214-5680
Be Aware is an awareness campaign that aims to end the stigma against mental illness. Website: www.beaware-campaign.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/BeAware.EndTheStigma Twitter: @beawarenostigma Wordpress: www.beawarecamapign.wordpress.com Video produced by 88 Visions
2010 Documentary about the life of trauma survivor, Tonier Cain
A short documentary made for a second year film-making module.
Our documentary aims to try and help young people understand what stigma is and how it can effect someone who suffers from various mental health problems. It gives a brief insight into people who have mental health problems within their lives and how they have used Mentality - a youth based organisation - to help them break down the stigma, as well as teaching and helping other people too.
Special thanks to the three girls involved, very inspirational. Have a watch if you have ten minutes spare and pass on the messages!
For any additional words of advice around mental health, check out Off The Record.