This one-hour public television documentary and outreach project is designed to challenge stereotypes about mental illness and to educate communities and health care providers about the needs of families and individuals coping with these diseases.

The program is a joint project of The North Carolina Depressive Manic Depressive Association, the University of North Carolina Department of Psychiatry, the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television (UNC-TV) and Minnow Media.





By seeing and hearing stories that have seldom been told, viewers may come to appreciate the damaging effects of stigma, especially among young people for whom mental illness often emerges just as they are on the cusp of experiencing their creative potential as human beings.

The program is also intended to encourage greater public awareness about:

  • the challenge of finding appropriate treatment, regardless of class, culture, and religious backgrounds;
  • the surprising frequency of depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia among us; and,
  • the pitfalls and possibilities in the current transition from hospital-based to community-based treatment options.

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