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Silver Spurs Premieres in St. Louis

Lincoln on the History Channel

The History Channel and the National Mental Health Association (now Mental Health America) created a national partnership in promotion of the January, 2006 special presentation of Lincoln. The program originally aired on Monday, January 16, 2006, and honored the remarkable accomplishments of our 16th President despite his life-long struggle with depression, which the film argues was the driving force behind his ultimate transcendence from modest origins to the American Presidency.  The THC and NMHA collaboration focused on educating Americans on mental health through Abraham Lincoln’s experiences and worked to dispel the stigma surrounding mental health problems and treatments.   

Lincoln's Melancholy

Did you know that our 16th president suffered from depression?  A new book details how Lincoln achieved greatness despite his depression.  Read Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk.  It's available at local book stores, the public library and at Amazon.  You can link to Amazon from this page and purchase it at a substantial discount.

THE NEW ASYLUMS
Aired Tuesday, May 10, 2005 at  9 P.M. (CDT) on PBS.
There are nearly half a million mentally ill people serving time in America's prisons and jails.  As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and ill-equipped gatekeepers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: are jails and prisons America's new asylums?

With exclusive and unprecedented access to prison therapy sessions, mental health treatment meetings, crisis wards, and prison disciplinary tribunals, FRONTLINE goes deep inside Ohio's state prison system to present a searing exploration of the complex and growing topic of mental health behind bars and a moving portrait of the individuals at the center of this issue.

Website information at    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/

A Film by Doug Whyte Follow the lives of the mentally ill and developmentally disabled residents as they struggle for dignity, emotional stability and independence. A powerfully rendered examination of mental illness that captures the beauty and resilience of the human spirit. www.silverspursmovie.com

Before They Fall Off the Cliff is a film about the 1994 McBride Family tragedy. This website details the film and has additional mental health resources.  Click here.

Educating and Nurturing the Bipolar Child - DVD

On Sept. 18, 2004, the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation presented a conference at which Janice Papolos was a keynote speaker. Her lecture, entitled Educating and Nurturing the Bipolar Child, was an incredibly informative and compassionate look at what a student with bipolar disorder faces minute-to-minute throughout the school day.

JBRF made a DVD of this live presentation, and all profits will go directly to supporting JBRF research projects.

To order a copy of Educating and Nurturing the Bipolar Child, please click here for a printer friendly order form for fax or mail.

See the latest edition of
Street Talk, the Mental Health Newsletter for Law Enforcement professionals.  Click here.

OPEN MIND

Open Mind is a weekly column in which questions regarding mental health issues are answered by professionals.  Open Mind appears in many editions of the Suburban Journal and other newspapers in Missouri.   Click here to browse archived columns.

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