I wanted to share with all of you some amazing work that my colleague Pearl Park is doing with the Asian community and mental illness. Please check out the below film trailer.
BOUT THE FILM
What does it take to heal from mental illness? This 56-minute
documentary film Can follows 37-year-old Can Truong’s journey of
trying to overcome depression and bipolar disorder over a 3 and 1/2
year period. After trying more than 20 different medications and
undergoing 7 hospitalizations and 15 electro-convulsive shock
treatments without success, he falls into suicidal despair. Shortly
after, he embarks on healing journey of the emotional and spiritual
kind as he becomes one of the few Asian Americans active in the mental
health consumer movement, a national civil rights effort by people
with mental illnesses for autonomy and dignity.
http://youtu.be/V720lROtoPE
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