ABC News 20/20 Schizophrenia

My son has mental illness and the National Alliance of Mental Illnessrecommended this 16 minute segment from a 20/20 television show as a good way to try and understand how the mind of a mentally ill person perceives things.A group of scientists at Yale University developed a visual reality device that one puts on their head to see and hear as if you have schizophrenia. It is an intense video showing a very extreme case of delusional processing. There are schizophrenic persons explaining their form of this illness.This CD is informative and worth viewing. It, in itself, is not enough of an education if one is seeking answers about this terrible disease. It does, however, add a greater clarity to what it does to a person.

I chose this video to support a teaching module in cognitive psychology and mental illness. I did not use it. I can't put my finger on what is missing, but I did not find that it enhanced the lesson at all so I left it out. I thought for the price it would be longer and go more what schizophrenia is (which it does to a limited extent) but it was a lesson learned to do my homework before a purchase.

I purchased this video in hopes that it might provide some insight into this illness as I have two adult daughters that suffer from Schizophrenia. I sat with my husband and my 29 year old daughter to watch this video and then asked my daughter what her thoughts were about what she just saw. My daughter said that although she has suffered from many hallucinations and has heard voices for years now, she did not learn anything new or informitive from this video. She also stated that if her doctor grew a third eye she would stop seeing him. This video may be helpful to someone who has no experience with mental illness to give them an idea of how scary hallucations and voices can be to someone who is experiencing them, and hopefully give them some since of compassion for those who deal with this illness daily.

Greatly disappointed in a video that cost $25 and ran for 11 minutes Basically it just reviewed technology where a "normal" person can see and hear what a person with schizophrenia sees and hears if 10 minutes of the video actually let you feel what it's like to have those symptoms I would have been satisfied but the amount of time where you could see and hear what it's like to suffer from this disease was approximately one minute out of the 11 minute video if 10 minutes of the video actually let you feel what it's like to have those symptoms I would have been satisfied but the amount of time where you could see and hear what it's like to suffer from this disease was approximately one minute out of the 11 minute video It left me and my students very disappointed

This view is very short - about 12-15 minutes. It opens with Barbara Walters. The only notes I took while viewing this video included the symptoms of schizophrenia include paranoia and delusions. I recommend the movie Beautiful Mind.

I teach nursing students at a college and chose this film for my mental health class. Although it's only about 15-20 minutes long, it does more to explain what it's like for a person with schizophrenia than anything I can tell them or anything they can read. You actually get inside the head of a person with schizophrenia; wow! The students are stunned and really gain an appreciation for the patients fighting this disease on a daily basis. I highly recommend this documentary.

This was a pretty short video and I didn't really learn much from it. I guess I was just expecting more.

Well done and informative. I use it to educate family members. Children with a parent suffering schizophrenia found it very helpful. Goes a long way to end the stigma they experience.