Documentary - Frontline: The Released

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Hey folks,

So I'm about halfway through this documentary, which gives some insight into how mental illness can really impact the lives of people, and the lives of people they happen to be surrounded by.

It also gives a glimpse of how medications can help control varying degrees of psychoses, for those of you who question the role of medications (effective vs destructive), and psychiatry as a curative profession.

It is available on netflix.

This year, hundreds of thousands of prisoners with serious mental illnesses will be released into communities across America, the largest exodus in the nation s history. Typically, mentally ill offenders leave prison with a bus ticket, $75 and two weeks worth of medication. Within 18 months, nearly two-thirds are re-arrested. In this follow-up to the groundbreaking film "The New Asylums," FRONTLINE examines what happens to the mentally ill when they leave prison and why they return at such alarming rates. The intimate stories of the released along with interviews with parole officers, social workers and psychiatrists provide a rare look at the lives of the mentally ill as they struggle to stay out of prison and reintegrate into society.

Edit: Looks like it's up on youtube.

Here is part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1PvCTvNEOg

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