Mental Health Awareness: Educational movies on mental illness, mentally ill | Examiner.com

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Here are educational movies on mental health to understand mental illness. These films show how Hollywood has shaped perception of mental illness and mentally ill people. Movies, whether independent films, documentaries or Hollywood blockbusters, have a powerful impact on how people understand concepts. Whether information is accurate, exaggerated or false, if it's portrayed in movie form people tend to accept and believe it more readily. Some of the most pervasive areas of movie influence over information is in the area of mental illness, psychiatric hospitals and institutional behavior. Watch these educational movies for Mental Health Awareness Month to boost sensitivity to the mentally ill.   Mental Health Awareness: Educational movies on mental illness, mentally ill | Examiner.com