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[Mairead]

Hi Guys,
I have schizophrenia or so I have been told!
I don't feel like I have it anymore because I am extremely stable on Clozaril and really living a normal life now.
I am doing a course in radio broadcasting and as part of my course, I have to make a documentary.
I have chosen to do my documentary on mental health/mental illness.
I have a few people who have agreed to be interviewed.
Does anybody here have any ideas on what I could ask them?
I mean if I was to interview YOU, what would YOU like to talk about?
Thanks,
Mairead

[rogueone]

Hey Mairead,

I seem to recall you write some poetry....please correct me if I'm wrong. So saying it's always good to start with your own experience and highlighting some of the dramas we face is a good way to start!

For example. Start with what is schizophrenia and work around that....ie medications and how they work, how you cope, can you live a normal life etc etc.

I'm sure you've got all the good questions there....just make it personal and besides it's your project....make it about what you want  to highlight about the experience...heck we're all different!

Paul ( rogueone )

[Jeani]

Mairead,

I wanted to let you know how 'brave' you are doing a documentary on mental health/mental illness.

Congrats on attending college, too.

Such an achievement in your life.

I'm a mother of a 28 year old sz son so I might can give you a different perspective of questions to ask.

If it wasn't for movies like 'Beautiful Mind', it would be hard for people like me to understand.

1.  Do they know you have sz?

I think you need to describe how a sz person feels on/off of their meds,and what an family member or outsider can do or not do toward the sz person.

The best way to get a sz loved one to accept their disease and take their meds.

Express how a sz person and family can be discriminated against, and mistreated.

How the 'sz disease' is not as accepted in society as a brain tumor,and etc.

I hope you share your documentary with us,and you receive that 'A.'

[Mairead]

My documentary on mental health is finished and is available at my website...

www.maireadmeade.com

Thanks,
Mairead

[crystalclear]

Mairead,
    I have sz-a,
     I am also a certified peer support specialist. I love strength based recovery stuff, so I would like to see a documentary about mental health issues that focuses on wellness and not illness. So questions about how one maintains wellness in the midst of illness. I hope that made sense.
Questions about coping skills, and not regurgitated sayings from therapists either, I mean tried and true things people actually do for themselves to get better and stay better, or maintain their current state of mind. I would want to hear of hopes and dreams, of going beyond the system, of taking risks, healthy risks, going to school, getting a job, proving the establishment wrong that we are not destined to live in AFC homes or nursing homes because we have a psychiatric condition.
Going against the status quo.
Good luck.
Chris