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Features a Harvard professor, an engineer, a high school student, among others, telling their stories of struggle & triumph over this common, yet often unrecognized & untreated brain disorder that affects one out of every ten Americans. Mental health experts, from the National Institute of Mental Health & elsewhere, highlight groundbreaking new medications & talk therapies helping people with clinical depression return to healthy lives. Academy Award-winner Rod Steiger adds his own voice, sharing his personal battle with clinical depression. Has won top awards from the American Psychiatric Association, The National Easter Seals Society & the National Mental Health Association among others. Includes transcript & educational material written in conjunction with the National Institute of Mental Health
This Peabody-Award winning program is the first major radio documentary to feature people with the thought disorder telling their own stories in their own words. Eleven people - including a doctor, a writer & a teacher - provide intimate, first-person accounts of the onset, living with, & recovering from this most misunderstood illness. Presents leading clinicians, medical researchers & mental health advocates explaining this disease that affects one in 100 people & how a growing number of people are able to significantly improve thanks to new "second-generation" medications. Includes transcript & educational material written in conjunction with the National Institute of Mental Health
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Méndez-Negrete's powerful account is the first memoir by a Mexican American author to share the devastation and hope a family experiences in dealing with schizophrenia.