Mysteries of Mental Illness

DECOLONIZING MENTAL HEALTH calls for a redress of ways we define and treat mental health.

Hear Cecilia McGough talk about her struggles with schizophrenia.

A look at today’s most cutting-edge treatments for the mentally ill.

Learn about the asylum, and its rise and fall as a place for treating the mentally ill.

How did we develop mental illness standards rooted in empirical science rather than dogma?

Mysteries of Mental Illness explores the story of mental illness in science and society.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Experts like Shawna Murray-Browne speak to what the current mental health field lacks.

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

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

An Olympic boxer struggles with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Anthropologist Linh An calls for a just mental healthcare system that dismantles racism.

Kelvin Nguyen unlearns shame and embraces therapy to help himself and others.

Dr. Vivian Jackson’s 6 As and how they tackle the many disparities of mental healthcare.

Shawna Murray-Browne’s quest to help BIPOC access ways of nurture, care, and healing.

Lloyd Hale’s journey from being a convict to a peer support specialist living in recovery.

Dr. Keshavarzi is building psychological treatment processes around faith-based concepts.

Dr. Igda Martinez is dedicated to empowering unhoused people and breaking stereotypes.

A mother's struggle to find adequate mental healthcare for her son with a disability.

Struggle against a culture that robs Native people of their identity and sense of self.

A good mental health treatment process must include families and friends.

Natasha Stovall’s centering of whiteness aims to cure psychiatry’s colorblindness.

How Idris Mitchell’s bipolar disorder put him in an eternal pursuit of beauty and joy.

Adriana Alejandre decides to change the way the Latinx community views mental healthcare.

Those leaving the reservation for higher education have tools to protect their community.

Native psychologists push for a move away from self and into the circularity of nature.

Well-known in his community, Paul Hoang is teaching people empathetic mental healthcare.

Lloyd Hale’s story of teenage schizophrenia and the lack of mental health support.