The Hidden Pandemic
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- For more than a year, COVID-19 has dominated headlines as it has steadily killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Behind the scenes, another deadly illness, already worsening dramatically in recent years, has spread like wildfire during lockdown. Kansas City PBS shines a light on this continued threat with The Hidden Pandemic, a documentary focusing on the lives of Kansas Citians navigating mental illness. Through personal interviews with patients and the health care professionals who treat them, The Hidden Pandemic uncovers challenges faced on the journey to improving and maintaining mental health.
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Michael Price heads into homes and through doctor’s office doors to capture local stories of mental illness. We will hear from a farmer, a fire chief, a psychiatric nurse, a college student, an IT expert, and many others, all of whom refuse to let their mental illness define who they are and dictate their futures.
Americans are told that a return to normalcy is just around the corner as a vaccine for COVID-19 is slowly distributed. Should this normal be accepted even when suicide is in the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States and health care professionals are continually frustrated by a system that in many cases will not allow them to meet their patients' needs?
Immediately following the documentary, news host Nick Haines searches for answers to the provocative questions raised in the film and offers tips and workarounds for navigating a mental health system that's experiencing its own pandemic-related crisis. He's joined by filmmaker Michael Price and some of the metro's leading mental health experts.
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You can't choose not to suffer. That would imply that suffering is a choice. I do mean that with all due respect, I just believe that to suffer is to be otherwise helpless and hurting. I don't mean to say that you couldn't get better at supressing your suffering but being someone who suffers from my own mental health, I can say that when I'm suffering there is no choice in the matter. People really need more resources and treatment, that's the only way to choose not to suffer. I'm not trying to invalidate that guys beliefs, I may have even misunderstood what he meant. I hope all of you the best and I encourage you to seek help now if you are suffering. Don't let the fact that some people think mental disorders are lies and excuses break you down. That is unequivocally false and you deserve to be believed and treated just as much as any other crisis should be treated, and more than many others.
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What everybody needs is to know that they can't die proven by quantum physics a long time ago. Get the book HANDS OF LIGHT written by the physicist Barbara Brennan.
I get what you mean. I think he meant the way he chooses to identify it-kind of in the realm of “I have it, it doesn’t have me”. And I see value in that, too. But you are also right. We can manage it, but that doesn’t mean the suffering/pain is a “choice”. Having the disease means it will pain you (even if only on occasion, even if you’re getting help) and there’s a certain amount of that you can’t change.
I agree. After decades of living through the dark ages about bipolar, it truly can resist response to medications. The pandemic trauma has been very hard for people already dealing with bipolar. Medications feel like sledgehammers when the person and brain need something truly healing we are a long way off to good treatment. It’s chronic disability.
I have several mental illnesses. I have generalized anxiety disorder, mixed anxiety and depressive disorder, bipolar, ADHD. It is so hard to live with. People do not understand the pain it causes both for the person who has a mental illness, but the people who live with them. There is just not much help. I am from Missouri. I can vouch for this program. What they say is true.
Get the book HANDS OF LIGHT written by the physicist Barbara Brennan. Just finding out that you can't die takes a lot of pressure off.
I checked and it's a free download on pdf drive thanks
@@pureenergy4578what do you mean when you say you can’t die?
@@graemegeorgeharrison2468 From the book The Quantum World written by the physicist Kenneth Ford are these words: Constantly bursting forth are quarks spinning billions of times a second as 3 points of light forming protons and neutrons. This is us. This is super fast movement at the subatomic level. We are literally constantly being created every second.
In the book Hands of Light written by the physicist Barbara Brennan are these words: we are eternal, electromagnetic, holographic and multidimensional light beings. There are many pictures/diagrams in this book of what we all look like out of these bodies. We are literally eternal energy whether here or in another dimension. There are hundreds of books that say so. That means horrendous censorship. We are being controlled big time by corporations that like us as their slaves.
You are being lied to. Corporations want you in that position so that they can make money off of you. You are their slave.
I worked for the NAMI (the national alliance on Mental Health) MO warmline. A warmline is for people, living with mental illness, before they get in crisis. Not only did NAMI MO lose their funding for the warmline but so did all the other warmlines around MO. We are mostly rural in this area and there is little to no help now for the rural community. MO voted for Medicaid expansion and they legislators stopped it even though Missourians voted for it! Our mental health system here in MO is AWFUL! I have had to wait over 6 months for a psychiatrist as well as a family member. But cutting the warmlines, is taking lifelines away from people living with mental illness.
Follow the money. This world is full of cartels running the show. They want billions of people off this planet.
the people in power are cruel
This is such a great documentary. So glad that it's out there to help people be more aware of this issue
2021 was the hardest, darkest time of my life. I was physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually BROKEN. But now I feel genuinely GRATEFUL and BLESSED that I had to go through that phase because GOD has graciously REVEALED Himself to me in miraculous ways. I am fortunate that He allowed me to know Him at a very young age, but this year is so much SPECIAL because of what WE (yes, GOD and me) have been through last year. He showed me how POWERFUL prayers truly are when I started to focus on WHO HE IS rather than who I am, on WHAT HE CAN DO rather than what I deserve. The experience was MAGICAL. He showed up BIG TIME and assured me that HE is indeed a LISTENING and RESPONDING GOD. Oh how my faith has skyrocketed as a result! Now more than ever, I have very bright HOPE for my future because I experienced first hand how RELIABLE God is. And for that I will forever be grateful. GLORY BE TO GOD, MY EVER FAITHFUL FATHER. ♥️♥️♥️
What we deserve and what god is are the same thing. This INTELLIGENCE is constantly creating us so that every subatomic particle we consist of IS THIS INTELLIGENCE. I found out prayer is imagery. I used to pray for others all the time. I forgave all the time. After a few months I started to feel energy, the kind that heals. Healing can be instantaneous. This INTELLIGENCE is our mother and father.
It’s fantastic to see content focusing on the insidious underbelly of this pandemic: The impact on one’s mental well-being. The news networks feigned concern plenty (typically to fuel an agenda of some sort), but seeing how emboldened and passionate many of these health care providers are is genuinely inspiring. Seeing people who kept sight on the less-obvious problems during this pandemic was eye-opening and inspirational.
Did you decide to skip the knowledge that this predated the pandemic? Dementia?
Really good. Great job from Michael on this documentary, insightful, helpful, and stigma reducing! Well done to the people who took part:)
I was surprised by the interview in the second part, didn't know it was going to happen, but it was enjoyable and nice to meet the director:)
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The hard part is keeping up with rapid fire thoughts (as ideals). As a writer; my passion to write is a love that I also hate. Much of me has far more experience in dark waters than blue, but I respect the Love of such unity. I have settled one thing: "Recovery is NOT about Comfort and convenience. It's about suffering and hurt, AND how to begin the process. But now I am full of doubt. Who the fk am I to share?
Thank you I'd have liked to read more
I have a lot of mental illness I take medicine but it horrible I am so tired of being crazy
You're not crazy Sherry.!🙂
Very nice and useful information. Offering a solution for better mental health. Reduce negative thoughts with a simple practice. Your breath is directly related to your mind [brain] causing negative thoughts-anxiety. For a relaxed life sit on a chair, back straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for around 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. Slowly the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Day or night, when taking a walk, when reading, on the phone, before sleep etc sit or lie down and observe your breath. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes Shyaaam Sir. -Counsellor.
One hundred thousand people in a rural county sounds like one aspect one aspect of understim, social poverty.
They speak about the influence of insurance companies on mental health care.There is socialized medicine in Canada and the care and concern is no better.(and depending on the location,even worse!)
3 comments shows the way America is today. SAD
People who have abnormal physical symptoms of the body (in this case the brain), that are too advanced to be treated with life style and behavior changes,medications are life enhancing and life giving to those that would otherwise die. Abnormal brain function, as found in dementia, psychosis, and brain injury, is NOT a psychological or emotional issue. It's as physical as treating any other physical condition that attacks the body.
@@mmfox1 THANK YOU!!
@@donnamariedavidson5065 Reduce negative thoughts with a simple practice. Your breath is directly related to your mind [brain] causing negative thoughts-anxiety. For a relaxed life sit on a chair, back straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for around 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. Slowly the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Day or night, when taking a walk, when reading, on the phone, before sleep etc sit or lie down and observe your breath. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes Shyaaam Sir. -Counsellor.
Focusing on one’s breath can help with coping with mental illness, but it is not the cure for it. Seeking professional help is a step in the right direction.
Doesn't Missouri ,Kansas City have enough physiatrists t?? If not why?? Do they not want to live in this part of the country?? Seems like Colorado where I live has plenty--
Does mental illness have any relation to evil or tormenting spirits?
Sugar Ray, Reduce negative thoughts with a simple practice. Your breath is directly related to your mind [brain] causing negative thoughts-anxiety. For a relaxed life sit on a chair, back straight, eyes closed and observe the sensations of your incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for around 5-10-15 minutes or more. Don’t fight your thoughts. Slowly the mind will relax. No deep breathing needed. Day or night, when taking a walk, when reading, on the phone, before sleep etc sit or lie down and observe your breath. Like me, make this a lifetime daily habit to have a good life. Avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes Shyaaam Sir. -Counsellor.
@@shyaaammeneen63 This is poor advice.
Mental illness is a chemical imbalance in the brain. It has nothing to do with evil spirits.
@@meganmorris5105 Take a decision to enjoy life . Read the msg I sent you and do the simple breath observing practice regularly to feel better and relaxed. I am doing it since many years and I am feeling relaxed and healthy. Strictly avoid constipation as it affects the mind instantly. Best wishes. Shyaaam Sir-Counsellor.decisionto
@@meganmorris5105 You're looking at the manifestation.
I love all the women down at San Joaquin county mental health, even though their treatment is death.
Quantum physics proved a long time ago that we can't die. There are hundreds of cartels on this earth that want to keep us as their slaves, which makes THEM billions of dollars. Get the book HANDS OF LIGHT written by the physicist Barbara Brennan to see what you look like as an eternal hologram.
Theology should be the foundation of mental health therapy. Jesus is real.
Jesus is real, and I am a believer. He still heals, but He will not heal everyone. Theology will do nothing to help the chemical imbalances in my brain. Medication does. Jesus created the science and He created the doctors who use that science to create medications to help people. Remember, Luke was a physician, and he used medicine as well.
@@mlkirkl09 Yes, but the mental health system excludes biblical therapy from their programing. If biblical therapies we're woven into mental health programs, then society would start to see mental health success on a whole new scale.
@@mlkirkl09 So basically what you're saying is that Jesus does things in very indirect ways. Distanced healing. Hmm, weird. Why not more directly?
Amen!
AND the federal government chooses to control cut funds for mental health!!!!
I sympathize and empathize with all of you....keep going strong!
My God! It is all over and I think we need Jesus...someone who can heal and send these demons away....obviously the meds work for some but not all, and I think we meed to start healing ....everybody watch this video and pray for healing please ....my son has been inflicted as well...thank you god bless you all...😢 ❤ amen
The pandemic is that none of you read physics. Psychiatrists are the problem.
JUST PUT THEM IN OVERCROWDED JAILS INSTEAD OF BUILDING HEALTH FACILITIES TO PUT THEM IN TO HELP THEM!!! THE GOVERNMENT GIVES THEM MONEY FOR EACH PRISONER!!!! THEY MAKE MONEY OFF THEM!!! SO SAD!!!😢😢😢😢😢
We are the targets of power hungry, MACHIAVELLIAN Psychiatrists
All in one tow in Ukiah: you’re busted
psyche hospitals are not money makers so there's no incentive to build the needed beds. Emergency rooms are overfilled BUT they are also MORE equipt to deal with agitated psyche patients than are inpatient psyche units. Why you might ask, well, they have police presence and access to quick meds without the need of jumping through the incredible hoops JACO has imposed on psyche units.
We absolutely have a oandemic of autism and ADD in children. Pharmeceutical companies and investees cannot be trusted to investigate. We have an epidemic of homeless people with many obvious causes. Our own government has been the enemy of farmers who have served us honorably. Our government has allowed big corporations to destroy locally owned businesses that gave day work to the marginalized. Thats a big cause for problems. The educational system has combatted belief in a higher power with rules of morality. Thats a problem. Family structure has been undermined. Not everyone is an intellectual, but our government has systematically destroyed factory jobs. Thats a problem. We need good housing for those being treated for mental illness. Im sure people much smarter than me know the answers.
Very sad, but there is one important detail that nobody brought up in this video,.....and that is God's help. He is the only one who can help u get better apart from medication. I lost both of my parents very young and became a widow at 27, I struggled to get by even with a son of 2 years old, but my help and medicine was the good Lord, I prayed and talked to God to help me get by, ...I'm strong thanks to him...I never had deppresion, or anxiety or any of those things,.....I only asked help to God, and hemade mesyrong to get by. Why don't people turn to God. I wonder?????
Probably because religion has done so much damage that people have varying views of what god is. There has been too much control and judgement and conditional access to the churches version of what god is and this has deterred many and confused the issue of what god is. For many the term 'god' brings up so much trauma and controversy. I am really glad that you came to 'god' in whatever way suited you but, it is not the same path for all. Religion has done no favours for the 'god' force within us all due to their belief systems of what this god force truly is.
So, the more accurate way to ask this question is, why don't people understand that 'god' is within them, and they are a part of this 'god' and that it is a power within us that can help us to navigate 'us'. This god inside knows us better than we know ourselves because, it is us and we have access to it, and we don't need a book or a doctrine/dogma or the interpretation of it by various church leaders, to access it. We don't even need to call it god, for this is simply a term given to this force by people who did not understand the true nature of who we really are.
That said, mental health is very different for us all and impacts our lives in ways that others, even if they traverse similar roads, cannot comprehend. There is no one way fit's all approach and this is the truth.
Go Michael and God bless the nurse and her EMS husband, and rest who did not shy away from cameras
The system makes egzamples for someone who is mentaly health.The sistem go on wrong way the people are not so crazy
What a path voice
I think it's hard to see the mental illness which makes it hard to sympathise with sufferers. Unlike a broken bone, which sticks out, your lovable, funny best mate could have depression and you'd never know it, or understand it..
As a country we don’t want to recognize mental health. We allow employers and payers ( insurance companies) to provide little coverage for mental health. We know there is a connection between our physical health. The toll on our society is crippling. Our government generally pays lip service to mental health issues. For profit health insurance companies are the worst when it comes to mental health. And we complain about all the people living on the streets and crime….God help us all in the US💔
hello from a Dane living in Norway. This mental-health-crises among other crises are entirely created by how the political system is build within it of course also the health-care-system that determines if people have equal access to help both physically and mentally. But due to the way the system is billed in the USA millions of people dont have access purely due to economic and political settings. Here in Europe we're lucky and blessed as everyone have equal right to the health care system regardless of social status. No one here have to have the burden and be left out due to the private health insurance companies who only wants to profit from their costumers. We dont have such absurd inequality like this here.
Menticide...insurance companies & the people that can pay to go to another state...I can't. $$$$$$$$$$$$$
I'm good now but I have moments. I don't do pills for I've had too many bad experiences losing insurance and then MD stops prescribing and I needed to wean myself off of them. I hate the stigma of 'your loved ones' when suicide occurs. Sometimes love is Not enough and people need to get over it. 💔
Tim, Never give up!! Your stronger then you think. People do love you. If you need medication take it.even if you don't have insurance some medication are as little as 20 dollar a month yes they may be older but they work great!!
Why don't they simply say "physical distance" instead of "social distance" which has a rather unclear meaning!?
All I can say about there social distancing is f.. that. Sorry if that seems harsh but my and my family’s mental health comes first. Just regular precautions like washing ur hands, keeping things clean, staying home when actually sick,ect but beyond no
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I agree with you, I remember a woman who couldn't travel from Canada to US to receive her cancer treatment which, hadn't she gone loud about it(and got the exempt permission), would've cost her life!
Millions of people died of STARVATION in poor countries because of the lock downs (Yes, they want you DEAD).
It’s our lives. Chemically laden junk food, beverages, lack of exercise, poor sleep, lousy connections to family and friends, stress related to overwork especially in meaningless, dead end, stupid jobs; every part of our environment poisoned by chemicals.
I NEVER STOP hearing about this. Any chance…just a theory…that by pretending that every single thing under the sun is a mental illness and giving everyone a pass out of it encourages the rush to diagnosis. Think of it…EVERYONE? Really? Why would we think that? Who came up with that idea? Take minute…think. My goodness. How very dumb.
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Living in this sick world makes sick!
It's the people in this world....ever since trump came into the picture so many people have become disgusting and cruel....it's disgusting...I can't wait until I'm out of this world...
Because psychiatric drugs cure, right? 😂 Yeah, drugged up nation. They make people worse, destroy families, it's never the drugs, right? That's why there's a pandemic, now. Lol.
People are inable to navigate their lives because of the screwed up education system, that prohibits to learn critical thinking skills.
There's an increase in the suicide rates despite more psychotropic drugs prescriptions... they are addictive, neurotoxic, don't solve anything.
But people lack critical thinking skills, that's why they are inable to draw the right conclusions.
The story of Michael would be quite funny, if he wouldn't suffer, as he and his mom (probably munchhausen by proxy and a narc) bullshitted themselves into the diagnose... (the rest was causes by the drugs..., good one).
However, big pharma celebrates! 🎉 (Mooo...)
We desperately need more drugs, yay! 😂
On the other side of this coin, mental health hospitals don't treat they medicate. It is a careful balance of therapy and medication that truly help. In California I was at a point where every time a cop saw me he'd dump me at a hospital, even if I wasn't having a breakdown. At the hospital the doctors would only hold me for 72 hours, but during those 72 hours they would take away all my medication. I have serious medical reactions to suddenly being taken off my meds. Vomiting, diarrhea, increased epileptic seizures.
A ton of psychiatrists have so many patients that they don't have time to treat, so they just medicate.
I'm bi-polar, with epilepsy, PTSD, and Acute anxiety.
Folks on medicaid who are venerable receive the worst treatment in our hospitals, I have seen it over and over and over again (RN)
And if you have a mental illness, the healthcare system blames you.
I have ptsd and persistent depressive disorder. Here in Ohio, I've got an excellent therapist.
Maybe she should get a cat not only for companionship but cat will go after rats
How do rats eat clothes???
Almost any fa cking thingRats eat a
Just seeing people coming to you with their face covered in masks and actively keeping distance from you..... Doesn't help
Ofcourse it doesn’t. It causes me more anxiety and depression especially when they make me wear a mask as well.
@@kathleengivant-taylor2277 I officially said NO to masks. I've had enough. It just don't tolerate them anymore.
@@AsenathWaiteDerby honestly I had enough after the first 3 months
The copy written for this video made me feel uncomfortable watching it.
Thank God that Michael's mom could be there for him!
I really like Jeremy's analogy between bipolar 1 and the weather. So true
Capitalism out of control makes it impossible for people to engage in healthy self care. Good mental health is dependent on good self care.
Capitalism has made mental health care unaffordable for many especially people who really need it. If you don't have the right insurance many charge $200 per session, $350 for the first session.
Stress is a big contributor too many situations and in some cases changing the environmental factors and changing who you are around who is toxic around you and what is toxic around you can help in some cases those people more but sadly many don't get the opportunity to escape toxic environments at times. Hope the system changes.
Some women are so paranoid about the mental state of men have a look at your own genetics as women in your family before you say things like the grandfather was like this! Take a look at your grandmother take a look at your mother take a look at yourself! There are many women who can be so controlling over their sons and men in their family, and they refuse to look at their own health.
As a former section-8 housing inspector, someone is not doing their job and instead taking funds for a piece of caca home...I hope she has been moved from that.
No such word as resiliency...it is "resilience".
What an amazing mum Angela is...Michael is very lucky to have her. Best of luck you two!
I wish I could hear this 😕🥺
mental illness is political government human will instead of God's will central authority
COVID is a ridiculous joke of a pandemic and politicians who made it so much worse with their nonsensical restrictions must be held responsible!
Look how many people and corporations and other businesses made huge amounts of money or received huge amounts of money from "the pandemic"
Growing out with no parents I feel like a looser, but in reality I'm not, but is just a mental issue, what it has helped me is Jesús Christ, so I invite you to pray with real intent and ask Him yes our savior to help you cope.
My reason of keep fighting depression, anxiety is God, and my little daughter may God bless us all.
I have a undiagnosed brain injury & mental problems it’s the hardest thing to diagnose they don’t want to do neurological test without proper insurance ext pray for me I want to live again 🙏🏽⚡️❤️🧠
It's only Mental weakness no mental health. Mental hustling.
There is no mental health in america it's only mental hustling!
It's not just the health system that's failing, although it really is: it's also the fact that our whole language of 'mental health' conceals the fact that we actually know nothing about it - we just pretend we do. We call it 'mental illness', which implies that it's something akin to a physical illness. When we say 'mental', do we mean the mind or the brain? Well, most psychiatrists have the idea that it's something to do with chemical imballences, but there is absolutely no evidence to prove that it is a brain disorder. In all probability the brain is reacting in natural ways to a very unnatural set of social circumstances. The truth is we don't understand mental health or mental illness. The phenomena is a mystery. If we started by acknowledging that, as many psychologists and psychiatrists do, then this would spur research and innumerable enquiries and studies into the phenomena. Not only that, but individual sufferers would not assume that they have an explanation, and would start to observe and study and try and learn themselves about it. This is what in meditation is called 'mindfullness', and is well known to be of benefit to mental wellbeing. People would explore new ways of dealing with it, and talking honestly and deeply about the experiences is known to help. Therapy is an alienated, commodified form of talking about it. We should ask ourselves why our experience of mental health is so much worse then it was historically and is in other countries. We should realize that all psychiatric medication is based on the crude repression of symptoms: it is not based on an understanding of the condition, and least of all on the curing of it. It can help people survive but it will never help to overcome a mental health condition. Millions of people die every year of suicide, and probably most of them would still be alive if they had someone they knew they could talk to, and who cared. In most cases people don't want to hear about it because everyone has their own struggles which are labelled 'mental illness', i.e. hopeless, and already understood. No - they are not hopeless and they are not understood, but living in a loving and supportive community, knowing unconditional love and acceptance, having true purpose, experiencing beauty and peace - these are things I think everyone knows, intuitively, would guard against the development of these forms of suffering and would heal those already sick. It is by letting go of the illusions that we understand 'mental illness' that we can hope to move forward in our understanding of it and treatment for it. I think it's clear that there are as much social and cultural and economic causes as there are biological, and there is nothing wrong with our biology: nature works perfectly. It is the unnatural, ossified, toxic, poisonous and often human made or introduced elements that destroy balance, health and wellbeing, both spiritual, mental and emotional. Well, that's my two pence worth.
The problem is not stigma. We've had 25 plus years of public awareness campaigns. Depression is commonplace and openly discussed. Its COST that makes treatment prohibitive.
Emptying and closing the mental institutions, wage stagnation and out of control cost of living have all led to a catastrophe for the vulnerable in my town.