Sharing the true struggle of mental illness essential to ending stigma

By sharing stories of patients even when they are at their most vulnerable, we better understand that people living with mental illness are not 'other.' They are just people. And they still have a voice.

Melanie Wood, pictured, is the director of Living in HOpe, a four-part documentary about HOpe Psychiatric Centre in North Vancouver.Photograph courtesy of Melanie Wood

Opinion

BY Melanie Wood

November 7, 2018

I'm often asked why I decided to make a film about mental illness and stigma. I’ve made films on pedophiles luring our children, on cybersex addiction, on high school girls that were convinced to have sexual relations with a teacher. But no one ever asked why I made...

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