How Mad Are You?
Take ten volunteers, half have psychiatric disorders, the other half don’t – but who is who? Over five days the group are put through a series of challenges – from performing stand-up comedy to mucking out cows.
The events are designed to explore the character traits of mental illness and ask whether the symptoms might be within all of us.Three leading experts in mental health attempt to spot which volunteers have been diagnosed with a mental health condition. But will the individuals who have suffered from mental illness reveal themselves?
Ten volunteers have come together for an extraordinary test. Five are “normal” and the other five have been officially diagnosed as mentally ill. Horizon asks if you can tell who is who, and considers where the line between sanity and madness lies.
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August 28th, 2009 at 21:18
Very interesting documentary!!!
It clears a lot of stigma around mental disorders. Further, it reveals that labeling people can have social consequences! As one of the participants put it, “never judge a book by its cover.”
I rate this documentary an 8/10
August 28th, 2009 at 22:33
“I wonder if everyone on the planet simultaneously lost their minds, if anyone would be able to distance themselves enough from the situation to realize we had all gone crazy.”
-Wiley Wiggins
August 29th, 2009 at 16:21
still cant get this provider to work, followed pt 10 in faq. Should exclude videos from this source. otherwise love the site and thanks
August 29th, 2009 at 16:25
Works perfect for me Ed Roche.
However in the future I’ll avoid embedding films from Megavideo. There are too many complaints and the people are not comfortable with it.
August 31st, 2009 at 05:49
Didn’t work for me either….Took me to a reported ‘attack’ site, according to my Virus detecting program.. Then it asked me to download their video player.. No thanks!
August 31st, 2009 at 20:50
I’m about to watch the second half right now, megavideo wouldn’t let me finish it last night. Very interesting documentary so far. Really sort of makes you rethink everything we know about abnormal psychology.
Anyway, Alex, don’t ever follow any of the links megavideo gives you. Just close them immediately. You should be able to watch it in this window if you hit the red play button, close the link, then hit the green play button. But I guess mega doesn’t work for everyone, so, yeah.
October 18th, 2009 at 03:18
Hmmm. Well, it was an interesting watch as far as entertaining goes. I thought the overall experiment was flawed in the sense that the people all knew they were going to be analyzed mentally… so they might let that consciously or subconsciously influence their behavior. the big picture results were what i expected (wont be able to tell the difference between illness/’normal’), while the ‘mystery’ of who was part of the ‘illness’ group had some surprises.
wouldn’t recommend it, as it wasn’t worth the 2 hr wait to find out that people who had been diagnosed ‘ill’ years earlier (in some instances) and with conditions that sometimes experience periods of no-symptoms, would be misdiagnosed… i wouldn’t expect otherwise.
November 29th, 2009 at 14:42
Say what you want, the older lady appeared unstable to me, the more so after she has denied it. Irrational and defensive, and also apparently half-aware of other people noticing these both traits.
November 30th, 2009 at 05:29
Very mind-opening. It is nice to put other people’s judgment on the line, even if they were experienced psychiatrists. I personally believe that Vicki might want to consider seeking medical help/counseling. She may have been over looked earlier in her life, and may not be “normal” as they put it.
December 22nd, 2009 at 05:25
This is such a great idea for educating the general public on mental illness. As someone who as personally struggled with depression, I’m really happy to see something like this out there.
March 16th, 2010 at 07:39
I thought there was supposed to be someone in the group with schizophrenia…?? great doc!