Schizo the movie

This is one of our two new online videos, which form part of our summer campaign. It has been designed to be hard-hitting and challenge the stereotype that links people with mental illness and violence. Help get the message out there that it is time to change by passing this on to your friends, or by visiting: http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/online-films

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• schizo
• schizophrenic
• psycho
• film
• viral
• time to change
• campaign
• mental
• illness
• depression
• rethink
• mind
• stuart

[desikinlalaland]

Time to Change is a service provider led and Institute of Psychiatry evaluated project that has received £18 million in funding.

How much of this money was spent on these two films ?

[ttcnow2008]

Time to Change is Englands most ambitious programme to end the discrimination faced by people with mental health problems, and improve the nations wellbeing.

Mind and Rethink are leading the programme, funded with £16m from the Big Lottery Fund and £4m from Comic Relief, and evaluated by the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College, London.

[ttcnow2008]

Thanks for all your comments on the online videos.

If you would like to have a discussion with other online users that are not related to the videos themselves, please start a discussion topic in on of the many online discussion forums across the internet.

Thanks,

The Time to Change YouTube Team

[chava2uk]

The new TV Drama "Crash" is a good example of Media attitudes. The schizophrenic man killed the young doctor in an unprovoked attack! Just more ignorance on the part of the BBC.

This campaign is really needed. It needs more focus though. Did they plan where to go with this movie or afterwards I wonder?

How did you expect it to go viral? Did you do all the things people normally do to cause that to happen? I suspect it seemed like a good idea bit there seems to have been no long term plan.

[SilvisRiversTWO]

Me? I am User for over 30 years. I've seen the narrow clique of middle class Users hijack the charities stack up "stigma" research because of their own problems and generalise it out to the exclusion of another better vision of wider choices in MH. Rethink and MInd have stacked the image cards to make their version of a future that only a few middle class people will really enjoy - look at the video its not typical of Users I know - its aimed and Mr and Ms Middle class.

[chava2uk]

@topseyasha Are you a service user who bears the label "schizo"? Or are you just a worker who has never experienced that stigma? if so you have no idea. I am angry they represented me this way when they knew me and could have at least consulted me. I watched the film. Very much so. Did you? I wonder what your "patients" say to each other when you are not there!

[topseysasha]

@chava2uk

I think you are angry and it wouldn't matter what the content of this film was actually.It's almost as if you hadn't seen the film. I think you would be surprised at what the patients I work with feel or think.

[zerotime2012]

I love this video. It's hilarious!! I must've watched it dozens of times. I crease up every time when Stuart says "Hi there, I'm sorry to disappoint you if you were expecting a lunatic with a knife on some sort of rampage". I'd like to see a film producer base a real movie on the advert, where the door opens and Stuart *is* a lunatic with a knife on some sort of rampage! After all, the black and white sequence at the start is too good to waste on a paltry advert.

[borgduck]

I'm mentally ill, but what are you gonna do?

[ojb500]

Yeah, this got me at the cinema, I was just getting all high horse to my companion about how inappropriate it is to call a horror film 'schizo'...

[happyflea]

@upsidown13 Then what about the nurological structure differences in the vast majority of those diagnoised with mental illlnes then?

[happyflea]

I saw this at the cinema for the first time today. I loved it! I hate discrimination of all kinds and mental illness is one of the types people can get away with most freely. I'm so happy something is happening about it.

[chava2uk]

they are going to try it in cinemas now! What next?

[chava2uk]

Did this cheap trick achieve anything, I wonder? I caused offense to people have the misfortune to bear the schizo label, but what good did spending all that money actually do?

[upsidown13]

"Mental illness is a metaphor (metaphorical disease). The word "disease" denotes a demonstrable biological process that affects the bodies of living organisms (plants, animals, and humans). The term "mental illness" refers to the undesirable thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of persons. ... The classification of (mis)behavior as illness provides an ideological justification for state-sponsored social control as medical treatment." -- Thomas Szasz