Accordingly the monthly TV show is usually Rev brainchild.
With as good amount of as 20 populace percent living with a mental health problem at any one time, look, there’s a bunch of needless suffering that might be alleviated with more information and understanding, she wrote in a press release for the show.
Barbara Meyers, a UU community minister tied with Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Fremont. Meyers’ work needs her outside the church and into community, as a community minister. You see, her own particular ministry centers on mental health problems. I look for viewers to understand it’s doable to get beyond this. I look for guests who are not in cr, Meyers said. They may are in past but now they will be role models. Meyers hosts the show and conducts the interviews. Simply think for a moment. When we talk to them before show we tell them to think of somebody who any program features at least 2 guests who could bring unusual perspectives to a poser.
The show has probably been attempting to counter the stigma and prejudice rather frequently attached to mental illness by talking with people who really suffer from a variety of conditions and in addition with family and admired ones who live with them.
Lum, who has schizoaffective disorder, was a guest on a new community access cable TV program called Mental Health Matters Alameda County, that debuted last fall. Needless to say, plenty of people have thanked me for sharing my story. People thank me for bringing problems out into the open and for giving them resources they wouldn’t have otherwise reputed about, Meyers said. Normally, viewers was appreciative. Lum supposed. Anyways, I’ve gotten plenty of positive feedback, she said. Notice, understanding what it’s practically like breaks down stereotypes. Now look, the experience has helped Lum to feel better understood. Loads of people think you’re crazy. Health for me been a living nightmare, she said. Then, the show is produced on a shoestring.