Mental Illness Video Summary

In the video, A Tale of Mental Illness, Elyn Saks shares her personal experience with schizophrenia and as immediately points out to the audience, this is her experience with schizophrenia as everyone’s experience is different. Ms. Sasks speaks of provider stigma upon receiving the diagnoses of chronic schizophrenia with a grave prognosis, she states that “at best, I was expected to live at a board and care and work remedial jobs” (). She speaks of her psychotic break down while in college that led to her third hospitalization for the mental illness. She recalls the doctors and hospital staff slamming her down on a metal bed then being strapped to the bed with leather straps. She shares that the hospital admission was an involuntary admission,