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.
WHY would you merely link a trailer?
thank you VERY little for you 'help'
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!
lol refrence humour.
psychology is not a science. everyone is identical
Common issues like "anxiety", "depression" and OCD are classified as mental illness - even when situational (like homesickness or loosing a loved one).
"Crazy is a state of mind. Lunacy is an art!" Cool E Beans.
Very interesting how even the professionals can get it wrong and what is even better is for those with Mental Health issues is that in their ordinary day to day lives it can be unoticable.
So why three white male psychiatrist "judges"? And interesting that apart from a male participant that showed very obvious signs of a disorder early on they selected four women as the "abnormal" ones. I think this might tell us something about the mental health sector and what is considered "normal". Come on BBC!
There is a lot of misinformation floating around in the comments below, some more dangerous than others.
The Bhagavad-Gita (as it is) explains That we are suffering due to our karma from past lives .Whilst people defy Krishna and try to be independent from Krishna they live in illusion and bewilderment and further adding to their karma so their suffering continues and increases .
More importantly than if you can tell the difference between the people in the film ,is that all people ( including the doctors who are more insane than the patients if they think that zombiefying ,dangerous ,medication with many side effects, that are worse than the illness its self ,should be prescribed or even be legal ) progress towards Krishna consciousness and not more diminished states of consciousness.
HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE
If the participants knew they were taking part in an experiment to find out who has a mental illness and who does not, can one assume they would do their best to "hide" any character flaws attached to said mental illness during the test/evaluation? Kind of contradicts itself in a way, I think.
Why are scientologists even watching this?
So, a psych label of "schizophrenia" equals to a diagnosis of cancer in real medicine. I wonder which real medical professional would venture to dish out cancer-diagnoses on the basis of a culturally determined subjective judgement of somebody's behaviour only, with no objective medical test results to support their beliefs. I also wonder, and this is even more disturbing to me, which patient would accept a cancer diagnosis based on somebody else's assumptions about them only, and even insist on this diagnosis to be scientifically valid, although the science itself proves them wrong.
yeah, there was no way to close the pop up, so I was hosed too. No where to click it off at all. Did read faq before watching as well. Too bad, and yes, it was a good vid for what I could see.
maybe, i should watch part 2 before i comment haha
i believe yasmine may have acted in way that she does not "normally" act, i feel she attempted to act normal and obviously hide whatever unfortunate illness she may have/had (although a battle with mental illness is lifelong, and thus who fight are truly valor) so say she had depression or social anxiety then she's going the conceal the tale-tell signs of the disorder. its much like how the famous experiment went to where the people acted like they had a mental disorder and really, when you come to think about, if any of us really wanted to dont you think you could make someone you never met think that yeah he may have something wrong with him/her. like if your trying to committed to a mental hospital and you can't (like not even, "well, let's have him spend the night, just in case") then there might be something more wrong with you then the people inside the building you were denied entrance into
Who that has suffered mental health issues would put someone else through that (and I should know) thumbs down
What a wicked Doco! LOOOVVEEDD it! Thats the most insightful, interesting piece on mental illness Ive ever watched/read. I liked Yasmin from the start. She cracked me up. Really disliked Vicki, what a dumb woman. Why the hell was she even considered to participate?? Love how stumped the judges were by the end! I would have loved to take part in this 'experiment' to see whether the panel picked out my mental illness, but then, after watching this, do I really have a mental illness? o_0 :)
This just keeps sending me to another page that looks like it's a virus. Help?
I think being off balance is the first way of tumbling down and becoming well rounded..
I have obsessive writing disorder... lol...
I would really enjoy being a part of a experiment like this to see what they would come up with.
I think the whole thing is silly and people are just people. we dont have to say that someone has a disorder just because they are different. Everyone is different.
I believe people just need to figure there vocation and avocation to get over the bumps. Communication is key.
Their are people with legitimate mental situations, however I believe many more people are diagnosed then necessary and pills are passed out like candy when people should just get a hobby and obsess over that instead.
You have to wonder how many people out there get misdiagnosed everyday and how many countless people that are raving lunatics never get diagnosed at all, like Muammar Gaddafi for example.
I'd love to know what the criteria is for a "normal" healthy person is and is there a marker or definition of mental "perfection"?
Greed and lust for power are also very dangerous social behaviours but are not even on the list or thought of when speaking about mental disorders, why is that? Probably because those types just cleverly identify themselves as "ambitious" and the rest of us sheep just nod and agree.
This was really quite interesting. I don't think we should "label" people with disorders at all, though some said that medication helps. I think there may also be spiritual matters involved with mental illness and not just physical ones.
Bipolar often goes hand in hand with schitzophrenia. They identified the five indivudals.
Yay! I guessed 4!
Lovely show, I enjoyed it very much :)
Although I am a little sad that the show didn't reveal, who suffered from schizophrenia.
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