Videos about mental illness

In the videos below, people with experience of mental health problems talk about living with mental illness and about the stigma and discrimination they face.

Video can be an incredibly powerful way to understand what mental illness is, how it can affect people and, most importantly, that it can affect anyone. Simply talking about mental illness can help break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that can affect all of us.

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Psychosis Is Nothing Like a Badger

Submitted by _Henry_ on Fri, 03/05/2013 - 4:19pm

Henry For most of my life I’ve been dealt with a cycle of anxiety, depression and psychosis that has been (at times) crippling, and (for the most part) misunderstood by those around me.

Supporting someone with depression: the tiniest things make a difference

Submitted by Jigwam on Mon, 21/01/2013 - 7:25pm

Jigwam video blogs about depression | Time to Change I might get a slapped wrist for opening like this, but helping someone with mental health issues can be a tricky blighter at times. No matter how much you care about somebody, it's really hard not to get anything back when you're putting so much hard work in.

Brene Brown: vulnerability is not weakness

Submitted by Maryam on Wed, 12/12/2012 - 11:11am

Maryam, a Time to Change blogger I was recently touched deeply by two TED talks by Brene Brown, ‘The Power of Vulnerability’ and the second is ‘Listening to Shame.’

The two quotes which sum up these talk beautifully are:

‘Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.'

My experience of school children's attitudes toward mental illness

Submitted by Minuteman on Mon, 10/12/2012 - 12:41pm

The mis-en-scene is miserable, saturated in a grey wash. The beleaguered teacher, sarcastic and scruffy, sets the titles for the class. The assignment: Pygmalion, the story of the transformation of a statue - literally set in stone - into an enlightened, fully rounded human being.