New, HBO: 'A Dangerous Son' Documentary (2018) [View all]

- NPR, "The Struggle of Finding Help for "A Dangerous Son," May 6, 2018
'A Dangerous Son,' which premiers Monday, focuses on three families who are dealing with the simultaneous challenges of handling children prone to lashing out while looking for treatment that is not always available.
"I don't know how to control my anger," 10-year old Ethan says in one clip. Ethan, now 16, is one of the film's subjects. His mom, Stacy Shapiro says he struggles with autism, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, intermittent explosive disorder and anxiety. His aggressive behavior started between ages 2 and 3, she says... https://www.npr.org/2018/05/06/608833599/the-struggle-of-finding-help-for-a-dangerous-son

- The Guardian, "The Stigma is Overwhelming: Documentary Investigates America's Mental Health Crisis," May 7, 2018
Oscar-nominated film-maker Liz Garbus’s new documentary examines the difficulties of raising children with psychiatric disorders and why we need more empathy for their mothers-
In 1955, the number of mentally ill Americans in public psychiatric hospitals peaked at 560,000. Since then, that number has been in sharp decline: as a result of deinstitutionalization and the broad transfer of mental health funding from the federal government to states, people – especially children – living with psychiatric disorders and emotional disturbances have fallen through the cracks.

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Liz Garbus’s new HBO documentary, A Dangerous Son, puts this crisis and the country’s inadequate response in sharp focus. Through the lens of three mothers whose sons suffer from mental illness, the documentary chronicles in intimate, often painful detail the roadblocks families face in securing treatment, as well as the effects of a dismantled and under-resourced apparatus for psychiatric care in the US. From 2009 to 2012, states slashed funding for mental health services by $5bn while the country got rid of almost 10% of its public psychiatric hospital beds. As the author Andrew Solomon says in the film: “There is the sense that rehabilitation is a luxury.”..https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/07/liz-garbus-a-dangerous-son-documentary-mental-health-crisis