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Movies for Mental Health
MassArt, WIT, Emmanuel College at MCPHS
November 3, 2016
@artwithimpact
#Movies4MentalHealth
Here’s the Plan
I. Quick introduction
II. Set the stage together
III. Watch short films & discuss them
IV. Make it personal with our panel
Brought to you by
• Monthly short film competition
• Campus workshops
• Global community (blog, IG, Twitter, FB)
Heads Up
• Mental health is personal - YOU are the
expert of your own experience.
• This is a public space - not therapy.
• We’re here for connection, questions and
creating change!
• Films might trigger big emotions - that’s OK!
• Please ask for help if you need support.
Some movies that show mental illness:
Shutter Island
Silver Linings Playbook
Ordinary People
A Beautiful Mind
Sybil
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
King of Hearts
Characters with mental illness are portrayed as:
“Crazy”
Multiple personality disorder
Weak or helpless
Unstable
Depressed
Suicidal
Isolated
Lost
Brilliant & Exceptional
What is mental illness?
Brain releases different things (such as
chemicals) or doesn’t release enough
Not a choice
It can make you feel … or not feel at all
Sometimes it’s environmental
Sometimes it’s hereditary
Sometimes it’s both!
Chronic or temporary
Painful (physical and emotional)
Mental health vs. mental illness?
Mental illness = extremes; mental health
more day-to-day ups and downs
Mental health can be a result of how you
treat or deal with mental illness
Can take a lot of skills to maintain
You feel like you have a lot of choices when
you’re mentally healthy
Sense of acceptance and well-being (self
acceptance)
How does stigma feel?
Isolating
Dehumanizing
Restrictive
Hurts
Helpless
Embarrassed
Unfair
Patronizing
Makes you feel abnormal
What did you think? What did you feel?
Thoughts• Easy to get caught up in feeling
your negative feelings; important to
look up in the world
• Juxtaposition between the act and
the beauty – the music, how
meticulous he was, the house, etc.
• He was really caring about other
people (e.g., worried about how
people found him) – but not taking
care of himself
• Romanticizes it a little bit. And
things never happen that quickly …
makes it un-relatable.
• In both films it took another person
to pull them out of it. Connection.
FeelingsHurt – very powerful
Felt frustrated; wanted him not to kill
himself.
Sense of humor to both of the films –
striking. Sense of humor about the
suffering … and a sense of relief with
the connection.
The humor speaks to the multi-
dimensionality of the human
experience.
What did you think… feel… learn?
ThoughtsCool that she mentioned
that even though the
memories are fleeting
she can recognize them
as triggers
Could be a good
resource for people who
don’t experience anxiety
– to build understanding
People use the anxiety
very lightly –
demonstrates the
seriousness of it
Had a feeling of
ambiguity and
ominousness that
portrays panic attacks
FeelingsMade us feel anxious;
an amazing visualization
of what a panic attack is
and how it feels
Just looking at it makes
you experience it with
her – gives you anxiety
Would have turned it off
if she had been
watching it alone
New InsightsWhat would it be like to
not be able to turn it
off??
People don’t realize that
there can be physical
symptoms – not always
recognized
Often with anxiety
connection doesn’t
actually help
In groups of three
• What did you think?
• What did you feel?
• What have you learned?
• What will you do?
What did you think… feel… learn?
ThoughtsHe was comfortable with the
mania, and said he
missed it. He has new
feelings that are
unfamiliar to him.
Clear expression of the
connection b/w
depression and anxiety.
Triumphant for him. He’s in
the process of
overcoming something.
Loved the idea of
personifying the illness.
Shows the ambivalence and
conflict.
InsightsStigma bending b/c
he wanted it – felt
like he was killing
a part of himself.
Portrays a sense of
self-hatred and
admiration.
Sadness in losing
a part of yourself.
FeelingsThe fidgeting made me feel
fidgety and nervous …
the way he was feeling.
Was the saddest of the
films – felt a real
heaviness in her heart.
Felt so hopeless. I have
to kill the only man that
made me feel good and
now I’m left with this.
Hopeful – I’m killing a part
of myself in order to
love myself in a
different way. A new
take on how people feel
toward their mental
illness.
Meet the Panel
• Brianna Fabianek - Emmanuel College Student
• Brianna Florio - MassArt Student
• Kylie Alexander - WIT Student
• Brenda Hawks - Director and Licensed
Psychologist, Emmanuel College Counseling Center
• Brandon Erdos - Psychiatrist
• Kim Irving - LICSW, Department of Mental Health
AWI Ambassadors
• You’re invited! Continue the conversation, be
a leader!
• Join the AWI Ambassadors FB group and
connect with students across North America:www.facebook.com/groups/awiambassadors/
• Blog, be a juror for the film competition, run
campaigns, and much more!
Thank you for coming!
• Contact us:
– info@artwithimpact.org
– Follow us!
– Submit a film!
http://www.artwithimpact.org/contest
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