Leah Harris reads her powerful poem I Was a Teenage Mental Patient and discusses how communities can work to prevent suicide by looking beyong mainstream approaches and rethinking our alienating school system.

Below is important info about HR 2387 - which would end federal funding for mental health screenings.

Protestors peacefully gathered inside and outside of the UMASS psychology building to hand out fliers and start conversations with people going in to get screened for mental illness, random students, and professors in the psychology department. The fliers read, "Think Before You Screen: Are Mental Health Screenings Really for Your Benefit or For the benefit of the Psychiatric Industry?"

David Oaks, Director of Mindfreedom International, the leading psychiatric survivor human rights coalition, talks about his 30 years of experience as a movement activist, Mindfreedom's work, and strategies and visions for challenging corporate psychiatric control of mental health care. David also hosts the weekly Mindfreedom News Hour radio show at www.theprn.org.

Harvard University lecturer Paula Caplan on bias in psychiatric diagnosis. Caplan is one of the leading critics of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, and was on some of the committtees revising the DSM-IV to get a first-hand look at the sexism, racism, and classism that goes into psychiatric labels. Paula also addresses the problems of isolation and stigma resulting from a PTSD diagnosis for veterans.