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What's Your Normal?
2:30
What's Your Normal?
Five people from the series Mysteries of Mental Illness talk about their struggles.
Episode 1 Preview: Evil Or Illness
2:25
Episode 1 Preview: Evil Or Illness
Episode 1 explores ancient ideas of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry.
The Kirkbride Asylum
3:08
The Kirkbride Asylum
Kirkbride's 'hospitals for the insane' were built for those who had nowhere else to go.
The Mass Incarceration of the Mentally Ill
2:55
The Mass Incarceration of the Mentally Ill
Asylums were closed down, but the mentally ill are still being institutionalized.
A Debilitating Condition
2:13
A Debilitating Condition
For 8 years, Matthew Rosenberg has dealt with a debilitating form of OCD.
The Asylum Hill Project
5:21
The Asylum Hill Project
Some 30,000 patients came through the Mississippi State Asylum, and many never left.
Psychedelics and Mental Illness
3:18
Psychedelics and Mental Illness
A chemist accidentally created the psychedelic, LSD, while searching for new medications.
Experimental Treatments and the Rise of Eugenics
5:47
Experimental Treatments and the Rise of Eugenics
What gave rise to the Eugenics program in the United States?
Cynthia Piltch and Electroconvulsive Therapy
3:54
Cynthia Piltch and Electroconvulsive Therapy
Cynthia is turning to ECT, or Electroconvulsive Therapy, to manage her severe depression.
Cook County Jail
4:00
Cook County Jail
How did prisons and jails become a frontline treatment for the mentally ill?
My OCD World
2:25
My OCD World
An Olympic boxer struggles with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
The Lobotomy
5:28
The Lobotomy
In 1936, neurologist Walter Freeman performed the first lobotomy in the U.S.
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