Matthew Rosenberg is having deep brain stimulation surgery to help his OCD condition.

Army Veteran Ryan Mains has struggled to accept his diagnosis of PTSD.

Olympic boxer Ginny Fuchs shares a little of what it's like to live with OCD.

Cynthia is turning to ECT, or Electroconvulsive Therapy, to manage her severe depression.

Asylums were closed down, but the mentally ill are still being institutionalized.

A chemist accidentally created the psychedelic, LSD, while searching for new medications.

Kirkbride's 'hospitals for the insane' were built for those who had nowhere else to go.

What gave rise to the Eugenics program in the United States?

For 8 years, Matthew Rosenberg has dealt with a debilitating form of OCD.

Some 30,000 patients came through the Mississippi State Asylum, and many never left.

Episode 1 explores ancient ideas of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry.

Hear Cecilia McGough talk about her struggles with schizophrenia.

How do the beliefs of the day shape our understanding of mental illness?

https:/Mia Yamamoto spent most of her life being made to feel like she was 'mentally ill'.

Learn about a mysterious illness known as 'Brain on Fire'.

For years Michael Walrond battled depression, and for years he suffered in silence.

Five people from the series Mysteries of Mental Illness talk about their struggles.

Scientists are searching for trauma's biological fingerprints, to understand PTSD.

In the U.S., as recently as the early 1970's, homosexuals were considered mentally ill.

What is mental illness and who's normal? This clip considers how we define these queries.

For a long time, Cecilia McGough found talking about her hallucinations very difficult.

How did prisons and jails become a frontline treatment for the mentally ill?

An Olympic boxer struggles with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

A psychiatrist works to bring informal healthcare to culturally relevant settings.

In 1936, neurologist Walter Freeman performed the first lobotomy in the U.S.