People Say I'm Crazy

People Say I'm Crazy (1989) is a 56 minute award-winning color documentary produced by the California Network of Mental Health Clients. It is based on the findings from the Well-Being Project, a ground-breaking survey conducted in 1987 by mental health consumers to explore what factors promote or deter the well-being of persons commonly labeled as mentally ill in California.

Jean Campbell, Ph.D., currently the Director of the Program in Consumer Studies and Training at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, was principal investigator of the Well-Being Project and wrote and narrated the documentary. In People Say I'm Crazy the Well-Being Project statistics are brought into sharp personal focus by the mental health consumers who relate their experiences of mental illness and treatment by the traditional mental health system, and stories of their everyday lives. Interwoven though out the stories are scenes from a wide variety of peer-run programs.

This documentary emphasizes the person, not the illness. It proclaims, "In a world of stigma, poverty and injustice, our voices illuminate the value of self-help, creativity, meaningful work and activity, and basic human dignity and respect. Most importantly, we speak for ourselves".

Category:

Education

Tags:

• mental illness
• mental health
• well-being
• jean campbell
• california
• MIMH
• university of mo

[kludg2008]

HAHAHA "just because normal people started WW I WW II dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki and commited genocide against the native americans, and instituted slavery. I have nothing against normal people but i wouldnt want my daughter to marry 1, nawmsayin."

[MsHolmar]

I am a counselor and I work on a psychiatric unit at a hospital. My mother has mental illness and has been in the very same place where I work. I can tell you much of what they say IS accurate but a lot isn't. First of all, people in this field do NOT do it for the pay. They could be doing something much less stressful that pays better but they want to help others. Also, state insurance won't cover stays for mental illness and in other cases, there is no insurance. The rest of the

[sn9696]

This was made in 1989?? it looks like 1963!!

[jellybean2423]

um when u say mental illness what types, and do u have to be qualified to deal with them or to volunteer with them

[tnightwalker]

If people dislikes the mental health system in the united states, they should  go to the Dominican Republic and see how people with mental problems. my older brother and my older sister the are bipolar and they also have some schizophrenia so i know the difference. it might not be perfect here but is better than a lot of places..

[samkurz]

This country needs to help and insure our disabled. They need there SSI

and to take it away for going into a hospital for over a month is wrong.

What is wrong with this country. My God.

[starlight2009xxx]

@MsHolmar they don't say the staff are only doing it for the pay, they are complaining that 'board and care' should be non-profit.