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We love your film and show it whenever we can to people who come through our doors.

I watched the movie.  I was very, very deeply moved by your gift to all of us and by your loving and committed family.  I appreciate them so much.

Fuller Torrey will find a cure for this disease.  I do not have a doubt in my mind that he will find the cure.  Until then, the medicine is necessary.

Your life story is familiar to me because my son also an art student, at Pratt, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of  27.  When I look back on it; his symptoms were plain to see at the age of 23 and we just didn't know anything about the illness at that time.  He was born in 1975.  He is experiencing stages of recovery.

My son's story is a little different.  His insight to his illness began only after an incarceration.   

Institutions of higher learning should be able to identify someone experiencing this illness and help them.  The primary care doctor or family doctor should be able to help too.  This is not the case.  After taking the Family to Family claass through my local NAMI chapter did I realize that unless you are going through this traumatic experience you would not know how to deal with this.  Very interesting that there is a common thread throughout the lives of those families experiencing the ups and downs of the illness.  The recovery process is a learning process as well.     

The movie " People Say I'm Crazy" really tells the story.  I am grateful to you for making this film.  Educating teachers, doctors, police, attorneys and the public will help others in the future so they can get on the road to recovery and lead a more productive life.  Laws also need to be changed to help assist families that recognize the illness and are helpless to do anything until the individual experienceing an episode is harmful to themselves or to others.

You have made an extraordinary flim to be proud of.

Best wishes to you and your family.

In 1994, I was a mother of two, a Montessori teacher, and writer who was suddenly thrust into a world of psychosis. I was a trained therapist who became an incoherent stranger to herself and a devoted wife who separated from my husband overnight and had two affairs that were as brief as my manic episode of that time. Mine has been a journey of forbidden happiness, grandiosity, paranoia as well as delusions, and at its worst, nearly fatal suicide attempts. When I was 34 I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had a psychotic breakdown to a non-functioning state.

It took me thirteen years of treatment, education, and faith in mental heath professionals to reach stability and face my mental illness head on. As of this writing, I am on recovery and committed to working with NAMI as a Stigma Buster, a presenter for a program called In Our Own Voice. I hope to offer hope to those who live in the shadows of mental illness by helping erase the faceless anonymity of bipolar disorder. All my writings have the same purpose and both my poetry and prose speak of the struggles but also of the gains of suffering from a mental illness.

People Say I’m Crazy is an inspiring movie who certainly helps people who are having difficulty accepting their diagnosis or who have lost faith that they can reach stability. Families who travel this arduous road will benefit from this masterpiece, which should also appeal to anyone searching for information and enlightment on mental illness and its recovery process.

From a writer from Los Angeles.

This was the most real film about mental illness I have ever seen…

I’ve never seen anything like this film.  Astounding.  None of us have ever seen such a REAL film before.  It’s like watching our lives.  Thank you...

You did an AMAZING job of capturing the essence of the struggle with mental illness.  We’re using the film as a training tool (and an inspirational tool!) for our organization.  All other films pale in comparison.

I'm impressed by such a great portrayal of mental illness. As a consumer, I must simply say, "thanks!".

It’s so comforting to watch your film and know that our family is not alone...