Videos, Posters, and Handouts
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    Videos

  • Black and Blue


    •  This 16-minute video by Annelle Primm, M.D. highlights the problem of depression in the African-American community.  It attempts to reduce the stigma of depression and mental health treatment by addressing some of the concerns that may be unique to African-Americans experiencing depression.  The video features comments by Dr. Primm and a variety of African-Americans who have experienced depression talking about their experiences and recoveries.
     

  • Hope on the Street

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  • Invisible Workforce

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  •        Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival


    • Synopsis:  Imagining Robert is an account of Robert Neugeboren's 30-year history of mental illness. In this moving memoir, his brother Jay describes the tragedy of psychosis and illustrates the redemptive power of writing. The author imagines his brother as two people--one hospitalized, the other communicative and lucid--and crafts a story of his brother's thoughts by weaving together Robert's exquisitely written letters about this unfolding family tragedy. The instability of the author's own children and his manipulative mother's affliction with Alzheimer's disease multiply the pressure he feels, threatening his own mental health. His careful words seem an attempt to organize the confusion around him. The imagined friendship with the brother he lovingly cares for serves as an important source of self-examination. Neugeboren's prose restores his brother's dignity by refusing to let the details of how Robert has suffered in psychiatric institutions go unrecorded.
     
     
     

  •     People Say I'm Crazy


    • Synopsis: Cadigan is diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1991 while a senior at Carnegie Mellon University studying painting and printmaking. After three years of failing to respond to any treatment, he finds a new doctor and begins taking newly-released medications which make a difference. He chronicles his fight for sanity with a video camera and the unswerving support of his family and makes a remarkable recovery. Cadigan now lives and works as an artist in the San Francisco Bay area. "Making art is like breathing - a necessary part of my life. The more I work, the more I am healed, and the images become a deeper expression of my interior world."
     

  • Stigma:  In Our Work, In Our Lives—video order form

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  • The Stigma of Mental Illness: A Curriculum


    • About Dr. Kenneth Duckworth, MD (Lead Contributor): Dr. Ken Duckworth serves as the medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).  Triple board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Adult, Child and Adolescent, and Forensic Psychiatry, Dr. Duckworth has extensive experience in the public health arena.

    Brief Articles

  • Before You Label People, Look At Their Contents SAMHSA
  • Confronting Stigma by Otto Wahl
  • TEN THINGS YOU CAN DO TO FIGHT STIGMA (NAMI-NYS) By Otto Wahl
  • Ten things you can do to fight stigma and discrimination:
  • Ten Things You Can Do To Fight Stigma for Our Children and Youth:  Adapted from an article “Ten Things You Can Do To Fight Stigma” by Otto Wahl
  • Stigmatizing Media Images Affect Children—MHA Bell: by Otto Wahl

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    Posters/Exhibits


    Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family:

    Exhibit Description: Nothing to Hide is an exhibit featuring photographs and interviews with families whose lives are affected by mental illness - schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, major depression, anxiety disorders, etc. The compelling accounts demonstrate strength, courage, integrity and accomplishment in the face of the adversity and stigma of mental illness. By bringing visibility to these individuals and their families, Nothing to Hide helps dispel harmful stereotypes, myths, and misconceptions about mental illness.

    Stigma: Language Matters—flyer order form:  CLICK HERE

    Language Matters

    One obstacle to more positive attitudes and behaviors toward those living with mental illnesses is disrespectful language used to refer to mental illnesses and the people who experience them.  For discussions of issues related to language and psychiatric disorder, click here: LANGUAGE MATTERS