Treatment of mental illness over history has been trial and error.
 

Science and societal factors shape ever-shifting definitions of mental health and illness.

Meet detainees at the nation’s largest de-facto mental health facility, Cook County Jail.

Today, with cutting-edge treatments for mental illness, the biggest battle is inclusion.

Mysteries of Mental Illness explores the story of mental illness in science and society.

Episode 1 explores ancient ideas of mental illness and the establishment of psychiatry.
 

How did we develop mental illness standards rooted in empirical science rather than dogma?
 

Learn about the asylum, and its rise and fall as a place for treating the mentally ill.

A look at today’s most cutting-edge treatments for the mentally ill.

 

What is mental illness and who's normal? This clip considers how we define these queries.

How do the beliefs of the day shape our understanding of mental illness?

Hear Cecilia McGough talk about her struggles with schizophrenia.

Learn about a mysterious illness known as 'Brain on Fire'.

For years Michael Walrond battled depression, and for years he suffered in silence.

Olympic boxer Ginny Fuchs shares a little of what it's like to live with OCD.

For a long time, Cecilia McGough found talking about her hallucinations very difficult.

In the U.S., as recently as the early 1970's, homosexuals were considered mentally ill.

Mia Yamamoto spent most of her life being made to feel like she was 'mentally ill'.

Army Veteran Ryan Mains has struggled to accept his diagnosis of PTSD.

Scientists are searching for trauma's biological fingerprints, to understand PTSD.

What gave rise to the Eugenics program in the United States?

Kirkbride's 'hospitals for the insane' were built for those who had nowhere else to go.

Some 30,000 patients came through the Mississippi State Asylum, and many never left.

Asylums were closed down, but the mentally ill are still being institutionalized.

A chemist accidentally created the psychedelic, LSD, while searching for new medications.

How did prisons and jails become a frontline treatment for the mentally ill?

Cynthia is turning to ECT, or Electroconvulsive Therapy, to manage her severe depression.

In 1936, neurologist Walter Freeman performed the first lobotomy in the U.S.

Matthew Rosenberg is having deep brain stimulation surgery to help his OCD condition.

Sidney Hankerson works to bring informal healthcare to culturally relevant settings.

An Olympic boxer struggles with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

DECOLONIZING MENTAL HEALTH calls for a redress of ways we define and treat mental health.

Experts like Shawna Murray-Browne speak to what the current mental health field lacks.

Shawna Murray-Browne’s quest to help BIPOC access ways of nurture, care, and healing.

Lloyd Hale’s story of teenage schizophrenia and the lack of mental health support.

Lloyd Hale’s journey from being a convict to a peer support specialist living in recovery.

How Idris Mitchell’s bipolar disorder put him in an eternal pursuit of beauty and joy.

Dr. Vivian Jackson’s 6 As and how they tackle the many disparities of mental healthcare.

Natasha Stovall’s centering of whiteness aims to cure psychiatry’s colorblindness.

Well-known in his community, Paul Hoang is teaching people empathetic mental healthcare.

Kelvin Nguyen unlearns shame and embraces therapy to help himself and others.

Anthropologist Linh An calls for a just mental healthcare system that dismantles racism.

A good mental health treatment process must include families and friends.

Native psychologists push for a move away from self and into the circularity of nature.

Those leaving the reservation for higher education have tools to protect their community.

Struggle against a culture that robs Native people of their identity and sense of self.

Adriana Alejandre decides to change the way the Latinx community views mental healthcare.

A mother's struggle to find adequate mental healthcare for her son with a disability.

Dr. Igda Martinez is dedicated to empowering unhoused people and breaking stereotypes.

Dr. Keshavarzi is building psychological treatment processes around faith-based concepts.