A new kind of film festival
Saturday, May 18 at Flix Brewhouse, Madison WI
This is a festival that celebrates film that breaks down barriers and stigmas regarding mental health and celebrates other mental health warrior filmmakers. Learn all about it here!
5 responses to “Mental Health Warrior film festival”
Ohhh gahhh. spare me from the mental health “warriors”… I’m up to here with the emotional brain repair cabal. There is a certain university department with a mental health “chair” or head…or whatever title. He wears a dress and addresses the concerns of people who probably thought they didn’t have any mental problems before this apparition. And nobody to a man(?) questioned this. Thank God we can still isolate.
Sue, you are talking about my son’s film festival. Many of your neighbors, co-workers, and (guessing here) family members deal every day with mental illness. Few of them are men who wear dresses.
Please don’t trivialize the issue, Sue. Several of my deceased friends suffered from very real mental health concerns, including a depressed high school pal who years later committed suicide. I spent almost a year blaming myself, to the point where this irrational guilt was starting to effect my physical health.
Long story short: I rebounded to a healthier state. It would have been easier with help. Now I realize this friend’s action was her choice. Not about me.
and while I’m on the air… I would like to say I love what you’ve done with the place. That lovely picture of the two boys and dog on their homemade raft brought back such happy memories of my own brother, always building carts, rafts, forts…and we got to enjoy them when he wasn’t looking. The picture reminds me of the old “Dick and Jane Readers”…only probably more advanced than what I got up to. The nuns didn’t approve of those readers and immediately switched them out for the catechism. My loss.
Excellent worthwhile cause, I wish him all the best. There are astronomical units of separation between those for whom the fact that “something is wrong” robs them of happiness, and those who cannot be happy until they can find something wrong, thus making themselves “special”. Kudos!