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Walking 6000 miles, Marine Veteran Jonathan Hancock confronts unprocessed trauma from war. Jon’s insight and humor gives a uniquely positive approach to the post-war topic. A hopeful story of resilience meant to inspire all audiences.

In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety to the study of compassion and kindness, those qualities cultivated by Tibetan meditation practice. The results of Davidson's studies at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, are portrayed in FREE THE MIND as they...

ROOT CAUSE is a feature length documentary based on one man’s extraordinary true story – a 10 year long journey to find the ROOT CAUSE of his panic attacks, anxiety, chronic fatigue, nausea, dizziness, agitation and insomnia. Interviews with expert health professionals from all over the world, provides incredible insight into how an infected root canal can affect other health functions of the body. Featuring leaders in their fields like Dr. Mercola,...

According to the World Health Organization, anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental illnesses on the globe at the moment. Is this a disease of modernity? Or is our highly competitive and material culture itself undermining our nerves? THE AGE OF ANXIETY examines what anxiety is, and how and why it is being re-defined by medical and pharmaceutical industries.

Childhood games are a part of our social, intellectual and emotional formation. Through them we socialize, define ourselves, and internalize many of the cultural habits of adult life. We all played in our childhood, and were free and happy while playing. But do we still keep this joyful spirit and playful culture alive within us? Would the child we once were be proud of the adult we became? DROPS OF JOY is a manifesto on the importance of sustaining...

When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to...

Location issues and physical barriers for Mental health clinicians in remote areas (Part 1). Also, a discussion on Dual diagnosis, co-morbidity and remote access (Part 2) and the challenges of limited resources, generic teams and treatment consistency (Part 3). Homeless issues in remote areas and a discussion on itinerancy, urban issues and poor health outcomes.

This film is about a woman who has a Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis. The first time she tried to kill herself, she was five years old. Now she is forty-five and hell-bent on trying to live – most of the time. She reacts on impulse, attacks, distracts, meditates, offers social commentary, trips over herself, laughs, judges, burns bridges, makes social gaffes, apologizes, loses her cool, philosophizes and remains dogged in her search for...

In the midst of a global mental health crisis, millions of people have turned to mindfulness. But does it actually make us happier and healthier? In a world-first experiment, journalist Shannon Harvey recruited a team of scientists to put mindful meditation to the test. But what began as a year-long self-experiment soon became a life-changing experience.

Acclaimed filmmaker James Keach takes us inside the quest for the first medication that that could treat the underlying process of Alzheimer’s disease, more than a century after Dr. Alois Alzheimer first described the brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and cognitive skills.