from amazon.

really love this movie at the moment... and i cant wait to get it
just makes me relaxed

anyone else watches it

[Miss Laura]

Hey Shattered Sanity,

Yes love that film... Have it on DVD and is one of my down DVD's but its such a good DVD though

[cocoabeans]

I've seen it and read the book. I found it rather whinmy and trite.

I saw the movie, but wasn't particularly that impressed by it at the time. Never had the desire to watch it again. Maybe I'll give it another shot one of these days.

[wing]

I saw the movie and thought it was unrealistic in parts but the two main characters acted their MI parts well.

It's depressing to me to watch movies about MI, though. Too many reminders of the bad stuff.

I liked this movie, I found it relaxing too and quite humourous in some ways. Believe it or not when I was in the psych ward we watched this. I dunno but in a way it was a bit comforting. Made the hospital is was in seem quite pleasant.

[ickle.Arnav]

institutionalization isn't unreal. bpd is the focus. I found that this mimicked my hospitalization experiences. I read Kaysen's other book. I liked it.

[tnlibrarian]

I've thought about watching it again. I would imagine I would view the characters in a very different way now.

Originally Posted by wingin'it

I saw the movie and thought it was unrealistic in parts but the two main characters acted their MI parts well.

It's depressing to me to watch movies about MI, though. Too many reminders of the bad stuff.

i see what you mean.

to me it is depressing because it reminds me of all my issues, but it also relaxing because i know i'm not the only person suffering and for a second i feel like i'm with people that care for me... when i watch movies, sometimes i feel i'm with the actual people

and it got sent today- woohoo!

[faerie_moon_x]

I have seen it many times. It's a good movie and I think it is realistic in that "back in the day," there were places like that. My aunt was actually hospitalized in the 60s, and although it was a hospital/home for the mentally ill, her illness was caused by a physical trigger (she was unknowingly drugged at a school function.) She was there for at least a year, but possibly longer, from what I've gathered, and it took several years for her to fully recover. People talk about it but they "explain." If you know what I mean. And she actually has very few memories of the experience and never speaks of it.

It's places like that which still make people afraid that they're going to be "locked up" or sent away. The hospital where my aunt was has since been closed and replaced with the short term stay facility.

My mom worked at a large institution called Michener Centre, basically a total institution for the "mental defectives". There were many mentally handicapped people and many mentally ill people living there, basically as inmates. There was tons of abuse against the clients from the staff. A lot of the clients had been raised there, dropped off as young children or infants and forgotten about. My aunt was a client there, she was sterilized at 16. Many of the clients were not even "mental defectives" as they put it, just unwanted children.

It has been closed for many years, however, when it closed the clients were given minimal disability income and basically on the streets to fend for them selves. Heartbreaking and happened a lot.

They actually did call the clients "inmates", back in the day, then they changed it to "trainees", then "students", and finally "clients", at this particular institution.

[faerie_moon_x]

Originally Posted by Anika

My mom worked at a large institution called Michener Centre, basically a total institution for the "mental defectives". There were many mentally handicapped people and many mentally ill people living there, basically as inmates. There was tons of abuse against the clients from the staff. A lot of the clients had been raised there, dropped off as young children or infants and forgotten about. My aunt was a client there, she was sterilized at 16. Many of the clients were not even "mental defectives" as they put it, just unwanted children.

It has been closed for many years, however, when it closed the clients were given minimal disability income and basically on the streets to fend for them selves. Heartbreaking and happened a lot.

They actually did call the clients "inmates", back in the day, then they changed it to "trainees", then "students", and finally "clients", at this particular institution.

This is very sad. It used to be common though to hide the mentally ill and mentally disabled people under the rug. Even today the mentally ill get swept under the rug. I mean how many of us hide it from bosses, family members, friends, co-works, etc... because even though they don't lock us up anymore, they still treat us like we're less somehow.

I did buy it last year but haven't watched it yet, I have heard good and bad about it, I think I need to be a little stable before I watch it

Originally Posted by dark_heart_x

This is very sad. It used to be common though to hide the mentally ill and mentally disabled people under the rug. Even today the mentally ill get swept under the rug. I mean how many of us hide it from bosses, family members, friends, co-works, etc... because even though they don't lock us up anymore, they still treat us like we're less somehow.

It's so true Darkheart,

You know this intsituation was the last in Canada to stop sterilization, I think it's said 90% of the sterilizations in Canada took place there, And it didn't stop till 1972! That isn't even that long ago!

We have to try to keep building on the positive changes tho, and sadly use the the dark parts of the history to learn from. Things are getting better... slowly. But much work to still be done.

Same for other areas, as a female in Canada I can proudly say " I am a female... and a Person!", well since 1929 anyways!