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You are making a huge difference!

I love the film - I am ordering a 2nd copy because my first one has skipped since I purchased it a year ago and it is difficult to view with the skipping.  Verna Carson

WOW! So many things I want to say about your video.  I feel close to this disease as I had a very close childhood friend whose mind started deteriorating during our teenage years (that would be about 50 years ago).  I remained somewhat close to her until her death this past summer.  Back then treatment was anything from nothing to shock treatments to medications to make her sleep most of the time.  I'm so sorry you are going thru this and am very grateful for the newer treatments that you have been able to use. I so wish my friend Cathy was still here so that I could talk with her about it.

I wish you and your very wonderful sister and family well!

I have suffered from bi polar and I am also a carer to my son who suffers from schizophrenia, I am desperate to purchase Johns film and can send a cheque if someone can tell me how I go about it. Please visit our website at www.georginawakefield.co.uk where you can view my published books and read some of my poetry. My family has taken part in 8 films relating to Schizophrenia including a BBC TV Documentary. To say that were proud of our son is an understatement these people deserve the utmost respect well done John like my son you are a hero lots of love Georgie Wakefieldx

I watched the movie.  I was very, very deeply moved by your gift to all of us and by your loving and committed family.  I appreciate them so much.

Fuller Torrey will find a cure for this disease.  I do not have a doubt in my mind that he will find the cure.  Until then, the medicine is necessary.

Your life story is familiar to me because my son also an art student, at Pratt, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of  27.  When I look back on it; his symptoms were plain to see at the age of 23 and we just didn't know anything about the illness at that time.  He was born in 1975.  He is experiencing stages of recovery.

My son's story is a little different.  His insight to his illness began only after an incarceration.   

Institutions of higher learning should be able to identify someone experiencing this illness and help them.  The primary care doctor or family doctor should be able to help too.  This is not the case.  After taking the Family to Family claass through my local NAMI chapter did I realize that unless you are going through this traumatic experience you would not know how to deal with this.  Very interesting that there is a common thread throughout the lives of those families experiencing the ups and downs of the illness.  The recovery process is a learning process as well.     

The movie " People Say I'm Crazy" really tells the story.  I am grateful to you for making this film.  Educating teachers, doctors, police, attorneys and the public will help others in the future so they can get on the road to recovery and lead a more productive life.  Laws also need to be changed to help assist families that recognize the illness and are helpless to do anything until the individual experienceing an episode is harmful to themselves or to others.

You have made an extraordinary flim to be proud of.

Best wishes to you and your family.

In 1994, I was a mother of two, a Montessori teacher, and writer who was suddenly thrust into a world of psychosis. I was a trained therapist who became an incoherent stranger to herself and a devoted wife who separated from my husband overnight and had two affairs that were as brief as my manic episode of that time. Mine has been a journey of forbidden happiness, grandiosity, paranoia as well as delusions, and at its worst, nearly fatal suicide attempts. When I was 34 I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had a psychotic breakdown to a non-functioning state.

It took me thirteen years of treatment, education, and faith in mental heath professionals to reach stability and face my mental illness head on. As of this writing, I am on recovery and committed to working with NAMI as a Stigma Buster, a presenter for a program called In Our Own Voice. I hope to offer hope to those who live in the shadows of mental illness by helping erase the faceless anonymity of bipolar disorder. All my writings have the same purpose and both my poetry and prose speak of the struggles but also of the gains of suffering from a mental illness.

People Say I’m Crazy is an inspiring movie who certainly helps people who are having difficulty accepting their diagnosis or who have lost faith that they can reach stability. Families who travel this arduous road will benefit from this masterpiece, which should also appeal to anyone searching for information and enlightment on mental illness and its recovery process.

From a writer from Los Angeles.

This was the most real film about mental illness I have ever seen…

I’ve never seen anything like this film.  Astounding.  None of us have ever seen such a REAL film before.  It’s like watching our lives.  Thank you...