Mental Illness Video Review

Watching “Hidden in Plain Sight: Looking for Mental Illness” on BBC and “Clinical Impressions: Identifying Mental Illness” made me aware of how those coping with a mental disorder feel. The participants experience varied among the individuals but overall, some shared a common characteristic such as expressing their confinement in their illness until questioned by the panel. The participants were asked to not share their illness with the other participants during the study which made it hard for them. Throughout the study, they expected finding out an illness that they knew nothing about for those without one and those with an illness were afraid of being exposed. Many became annoyed or angered towards these assignments but did not let their emotions overrule their illness in completing these tasks. Throughout both videos, I checked my emotions and assessed my personality to the participants experience to the exercises they were given. I found myself to be anxious alongside the participants since they were brave enough to expose themselves in front of cameras, strangers, and a panel of 3 doctors that were analyzing and seeing the partakers. The participants were courageous to go …show more content…
They were quick to diagnose the participants with symptoms that were misleading towards the disorders that they did not have. Their judgement on the actions of the participants were inaccurate and they were quick to label based on their habits of the partakers. The doctors, the highly-trusted professionals were over analyzing in which led to misdiagnosing the participants with the wrong illness. As a graduate student and future licensed social worker, this documentary is extremely beneficial towards my career because it goes on to show that even board certified medical doctors should not be too quick to stereotype and label patients solely based off their visual