Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness is a two-part, four-hour documentary that explores America's mental health crisis through the eyes of more than twenty young people, their providers, advocates, family, and friends. The interviewees speak courageously about their challenges, difficulty finding treatment, and encounters with stigma-making their experiences more relatable for all of us.
The Storm, the first two-hour episode of Hiding in Plain Sight, focuses on the lived experience of more than twenty young people with mental health challenges, along with the observations and insights of families, providers, and advocates.
In Resilience, the second episode of Hiding in Plain Sight, our "heroes" speak about finding help, inpatient and outpatient therapy, the stigma of racial or gender discrimination, the criminalization of mental illness, and youth suicide.