Healing Voices & Medicating Normal: Activsim & Advocacy With Documentary Film In A Pandemic 

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To watch the documentary, Healing Voices, visit: amzn.to/3tCnRIt
HEALING VOICES is a feature-length documentary examining experiences commonly labeled as 'psychosis' or 'mental illness' in society, and a critical look at America's broken mental health care system.
To watch the documentary, Medicating Normal, visit: www.medicatingnormal.com/watch
MEDICATING NORMAL follows the journeys of a newly married couple, a female combat veteran, a waitress, and a teenager - whose doctors prescribed psychiatric drugs to help with stress, mild depression, sleeplessness, focus, and trauma. Our subjects struggle with serious physical and mental side-effects which resulted from taking the drugs as prescribed. During the course of the film, prominent psychiatrists and scientific experts explain how it came to pass that - shockingly - one in five Americans are now taking these drugs daily. And they support and reinforce the fact that debilitating side-effects including addiction are common, and yet are not commonly acknowledged. It is the untold story of the disastrous consequences that can occur when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.
This community discussion and Q&A focused on film as a vehicle for activsim in the age of a pandemic featuring:
Oryx Cohen, survivor, speaker, filmmaker, subject of the film, Healing Voices
PJ Moynihan, Founder and CEO of Digital Eyes Film Productions and Director/Producer of Healing Voices
Lynn Cunningham, co-director/co-producer of Medicating Normal
Angela Peacock, MSW, former Army Sergeant, subject of the film, Medicating
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The discussion was moderated by Nicole Lamberson, PA of the Medicating Normal Outreach Team.