Bedlam
Season 21 Episode 13 | 1h 25m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
The stories of people with mental illness are explored with immediacy and urgency.
Shot over the course of five years, Bedlam examines the mental health crisis through intimate stories of those people who are in-and-out of overwhelmed and under-resourced psych emergency rooms, jails and homeless camps in Los Angeles, while psychiatrist and filmmaker Dr. Ken Rosenberg also searches for answers to his own late sister’s mental illness.
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Bedlam
Season 21 Episode 13 | 1h 25m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Shot over the course of five years, Bedlam examines the mental health crisis through intimate stories of those people who are in-and-out of overwhelmed and under-resourced psych emergency rooms, jails and homeless camps in Los Angeles, while psychiatrist and filmmaker Dr. Ken Rosenberg also searches for answers to his own late sister’s mental illness.
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Jails for Mental Illness | Bedlam
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Clip: S21 Ep13 | 1m 44s | America's three largest jails are also its three largest psychiatric treatment facilities. (1m 44s)
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