Stop the Stigma. Start a Conversation. (Out of Sight - Promo)
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Full film now available on home video!
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DVD and Streaming on Amazon Video: amzn.com/B07SL1... A preview of the upcoming feature length documentary "Out of Sight."
Out of Sight explores the effects on how our society treats adolescents at-risk of suicide, or suffering from depression - and it’s dire consequences. It addresses the idea that such issues are best kept “out of sight.
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Featuring:
Jessie Minor
Molly Hudelson
Annie Blaine
Jess Reed
Sarah Sarah Tomlinson
Aimee Bender
Katie Piatt
Leo Behe
Anthony Vonelli
Amy Cramer
Chris Minor
Toni Mazzariello
Joe Ragosta
Angela Landis
Laurel Wenson
Laurette Johnson-Presto
James Presto
Jamie Tworkowski
The heartbreaking thing is that there are many ways we can help these kids and adults cope and conquer depression. First is by telling them there is NOTHING wrong with them. And that this is NOT a permanent life situation. Hope is a powerful first step to treatment. People with depression and anxieties are usually people who feel more deeply than others. In a society where everyone is desensitized, this in itself is almost the stigma. How to live a human life in a place where everyone else is becoming numb and meaner by the day. The more we talk about it and get involved the more we can make a lasting changes in everyones life. No one should have to suffer in silence or alone.
I am so excited to see more of these stories. Keep up the great work!
Great Job! Looking forward to the full film!
Watch, like, and support! Looking forward to seeing the full length film.
A small step to reducing the stigma and taboo around mental health issues in young adults. Excited to see the full edit!!
Great job.
Poor Jessie's parents clearly should be ashamed of themselves
excited to see this..
It's great to get this conversation started, mental illness, especially in teens, is so heavily stigmatized and mishandled which leads to unnecessary suffering and death. However, just from this promo, it seems a few significant demographics are not represented, which is a bit confusing. Where are the Asian, Black, Native American, and Hispanic young men and women, most of whom have equal or higher suicide and depression as white young men and women?
Here are some quick google stats from the CDC:
"During 2005-2009, the highest suicide rates were among American Indian/Alaskan Native males with 27.61 suicides per 100,000 and Non-Hispanic White males with 25.96 suicides per 100,000 [...] The Asian/Pacific Islanders had the lowest suicide rates among males while the Non-Hispanic Blacks had the lowest suicide rate among females".
You are absolutely right when you said: "it seems a few significant demographics are not represented". it's worst than that, the most significant demographic (young males) was almost unrepresented in the video. The big part of fighting stigma is to talk about what is happening. The young women in the video clearly explained how and what they went through in regards to psychological distress and suicidal thoughts/behavior. However, Josh Johnsons parents never clearly stated that their son committed suicide, you had to infer this information from their testimony. I completely understand how hard it was for the parents to talk about their son's death but the fact that they couldn't directly address the reality of their sons suicide shows exactly how hard it its for males to talk about their feelings and seek the help that they require.
I do however understand that this is a promo vid and I hope that in the full documentary the reticence of young males to seek help is fully addressed.
First of all, this is a promotional video for a 100 minute film. We do have a lack of first-hand racial minorities, if you watch the full film you were learn this project was started as a reaction to the extreme lack of care in the conservative homeschooling movement and then continued at DeSales, a school with a remarkably low minority rate. We simple weren't presented with many racial minorities and felt it would be disingenuous to specifically seek out such subjects on the nature of their race rather than the nature of their story. We are completely aware of the stigmas surrounding mental health in many ethnic communities, especially in Hispanic cultures. We do represent the LGBT population well in both our crew and our subjects.
As for Josh Johnson's parents never stating that their son committed suicide, this is a promotional piece and we felt it would be inappropriate and unbalanced narrative-wise to go into the details. They have been very outspoken and public about talking about what happened to them and working to get other parents to raise awareness. As for our lack of male subjects in the promotional piece, we simply chose the most concise interviews for the promotional piece but we definitely have had less male subjects approach us too by a long shot.