Alana Michaels reads "H.O.P.E." at This Is My Brave NYC

Alana Michaels talks about her bipolar disorder with "H.O.P.E." From This Is My Brave New York City 2018 at Mason Hall.
This Is My Brave, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization (thisismybrave.org) is the leading platform for individuals to share their stories of living successful lives despite a diagnosis of a mental health disorder through artistic expression (spoken word poetry, original music and essay readings) on stage in front of a live audience. We're opening up the conversation about mental health disorders in communities all across the country and beyond via our CZcams channel.
We're shining a light on mental illness because it has been in the dark too long. We're ending mental illness stigma, one story at a time.
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September 24, 2018
Mason Hall at Baruch College
Produced by Amy Wasserman, Dennis Kenney, and Julie Stark
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I wish that there were a cure for bipolar disorder and all other mental illnesses. Psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, and everybody else ought to stop interfering with creating a cure for mental illness. When it is not yet possible to cure a particular case of a mental illness, one should be given an informed choice on how to manage the mental illness, including whether or not to take psychiatric medications and if so, which medications to take.