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DESCRIPTION:FREMONT, CA – Psychiatrist turned filmmaker Kenneth Rosenberg examines a 
 national health crisis in the film Bedlam, which will be shown Saturday, 
 February 8 at 1:30 p.m. as part of the Second Saturday Documentary Series 
 at Niles Discovery Church, 36600 Niles Boulevard (at the corner of Nursery 
 Ave., Fremont). The screening is free and open to the public. \n\n“For 
 centuries, we, individuals and families living with serious mental illness, 
 have suffered in silence and shame,” said Rosenberg. “We can no longer 
 be ashamed, and we can no longer stay silent.”\n\nAn Official Selection 
 in 2019 for the Sundance Film festival, Bedlam follows the emotional 
 stories of people fighting severe mental illnesses as they are pushed into 
 the paths of police officers, ER doctors and nurses, lawyers, and prison 
 guards.\n\nHaunted by the death of his mentally ill sister, Rosenberg takes 
 us inside Los Angeles County’s overwhelmed and under-resourced 
 psychiatric ER, a nearby jail – housing thousands of psychiatric patients 
 – and the homes and homeless encampments of people suffering from extreme 
 mental illness.\n \nThis film shines a light on the events that led to the 
 closing of mental institutions from the 1950s to the 1980s and left a 
 skeletal mental health support system in its wake. “The mentally ill are 
 falling through the cracks of American society landing in jails, sleeping 
 in parks or on sidewalks, or disappearing completely,” said the Rev. 
 Jeffrey Spencer, senior pastor at Niles Discovery Church. “All while we 
 wait for solutions from policy makers and Big Pharma.”\n\nFollowing the 
 film, there will be a discussion moderated by the Rev. Barbara Meyers, a 
 community minister specializing in Mental Health.\n\nThe Second Saturday 
 Documentary Series is co-sponsored by Niles Discovery Church and the San 
 Jose Peace and Justice Center. Learn more about the series at 
 http://bit.ly/nilesssds. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/27/18830118.php
SUMMARY:Film Explores Mental Health Crisis – Silence, Shame Worsen Suffering
LOCATION:Niles Discovery Church\n36600 Niles Boulevard \nFremont, California 94536
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/27/18830118.php
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