The doctor who hears voices part 3

The film follows Ruth's unorthodox journey with Rufus as she strives to combat the voice and regain her job.




Rufus May is a maverick psychologist. He believes there is no such thing as schizophrenia, that medication can destroy lives and that there's nothing wrong with hearing voices. Rufus is an authority on the subject. He was diagnosed with acute schizophrenia aged 18.




In this powerful and thought-provoking film, BAFTA-award winning director Leo Regan, takes a challenging look at how society deals with mental illness, using an innovative mix of contemporaneous documentary footage and dramatised scenes. To protect her anonymity, Ruth is played by BAFTA-nominated actress Ruth Wilson and some details have been changed.




With figures suggesting as many as one in four people suffer from mental illness at some point in their lives, the film prompts the question, how far can people who hear voices also continue to live a normal life?

Category:

Education

Tags:

• mental
• health
• clinical
• psychology
• psychiatry
• voices

[LeeAnne2001]

okay, she has cut marks, she is delusional, she thinks a fish tank is in sync with someone's heart beat, and is talking to her voices... not convinced this is working yet

[folieadeux8381]

Taking someone off meds that is as bad as she is, is just not a good idea. Medication helped me immensely. I'm really sick of people freaking out over medicated people. We're not all zombies, and yes, it does help, and it has with me. I have bipolar and BPD along with severe anxiety, OCD, and PTSD. Thank you to the people who created these meds to make me feel human again!

[drixhex]

ok, this "problem" is a struggle. everyone looks at the obvious oh she has this or that, she is working through problems, as we al are in on way or another. You are no different from her. In fact if she gets through it she is stronger, emotional, physical, sexual abuse can along with isolation can cause this sh:t to happen. It could happen to you, do not talk down..visit my blog.I got through it with help of supplements and small meds....big meds destroy...ekduo.blogspot.com.s­urvive..evolve.

[MsBionomics]

@folieadeux8381

Meds are not meds. It has long been speculated that the meds for schizophrenia treat only the symptoms while brain damage goes on. In a recent experiment with brain cells of schizophrenics it has been shown that almost all of the standard meds for this illness had absolutly no positive effect on the ill cells.

[improbableangel]

Does anyone see that he looks like he has moments that he may be hearing voices? pauses, eye movement, like he's listening inside his head. not convinced he is completley cured.

[DiNKYWiNKYx3]

@frecklydharma

You're an idiot..

[nateburnett]

The ultimate treatment a person can receive is a combination of things: starting with therapy to get to the root cause of the person's troubles, making sure there is someone in their life to make them feel loved, then having them eat fresh organic fruits, and green leafy vegetable (to provide nutrients). Those three things: therapy, love, and real nutrients.

[thestrugglewithin]

@LeeAnne2001

Well done to you and the 5 other fools that begin drawing conclusions not even HALF-WAY THROUGH THE FILM.

Are you a (typical) doctor by any chance?

You're arrogance and ignorance suggests.

[thestrugglewithin]

@folieadeux8381

I'm glad its helped you in your recovery and I agree, if the case is really bad, so bad that the point of cognitive therapy (in all avenues) is exhausted because they are incapable of receiving that kind of treatment, meds will help bring them back to a more "normal" state so that THAT therapy can take place.

The problem is that psychiatry is too often a shot-gun effect or a bandage--solution to a bullet wound. It gets rid of the symptoms, but the problem, the CAUSE remains.

[dadiddlydooda]

@folieadeux8381 Now, you're just being sensitive and emotional; thinking irrational. I'm saying I've become stronger in my own way, not that I have surpassed any individual per se. There are two of many ways you can deal with schizophrenia from what I have mentioned. Both ways are fine, but dealing schizophrenia without medication and deciding to fight the battles without help can be very difficult is what I'm saying compared to just popping a pill. You should know that as well as I do.

[folieadeux8381]

@dadiddlydooda So, are you saying you are stronger than me (or will be) because you have found a way to battle your mental illness without medication? Unbelievable. It's too easy to argue that statement so I'll just stop right there.