Mental Illness on the Silver Screen
We see plenty of damaging and misleading stereotypes—but some films foster empathy toward people who are suffering.
We see plenty of damaging and misleading stereotypes—but some films foster empathy toward people who are suffering.
How common are mental health problems? Approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year. In England, 1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem (such as anxiety and depression) in any given week.
A report presented to the Foresight Project on communicating the evidence base for improving people’s well-being.
Programme exploring the limits and potential of the human mind.
Enjoy our participative digital storytelling, explore our themes and blogs which cover our hunt through the archives, and the life stories we found there. Read our stories, bringing alive people and places in photos and quotes.
Our aim is to make Deaf heritage accessible, so that everyone can enjoy and learn from our rich and beautiful history.
We set out to find out what the barriers were to building a strong d/Deaf audience in the UK. We conducted a survey of d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences, a focus group of Deaf people and also a survey of exhibitors to understand their experience with developing d/Deaf audiences. 97.5% of respondents to our … More
Alzheimer’s Society videos, podcasts and audio factsheets feature real people and their personal experiences, ways to help families with dementia, advice on what to do if you’re worried about your memory, and much more.
Meet John. He’s a wizard at data analytics. His combination of mathematical ability and software development skill is highly unusual. His CV features two master’s degrees, both with honors. An obvious guy for a tech company to scoop up, right?
Variety critic Leslie Felperin responded to her son’s diagnosis by watching every movie about autism she could find