The Power Of Words
If a picture is worth a thousand words, is a picture of a word worth 1001? Decide for yourself with this powerful, yet simple video about the power of words.
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Sensational. I’d hate to be a kid today.
Beautiful and so so sad.
thank you for putting this video up. I have a child who has several of these diagnoses and I am always trying to tell him to not let those label him and he can still be whatever he wants to be. I also work with foster children and I think this is a video that needs to be shared with parents and children. Thank you.
Thanks Michelle. I have a 2 1/2 year old and watching this video really moved me emotionally. I can only imagine what I would have been diagnosed with if I were growing up now. It’s hard out there.
Do you folks know who CCHR are and where they come from? Are you familiar with their Industry of Death museum? They have some unusual views and surprising financial backers.
A most effective video.
Thanks for the comment Mario. I didn’t know who they are, but looked it up once I saw your comment. Very interesting. Either way, though, I think the video is powerful and has a lot of truth to it.
Definitely a very effective presentation. So simple, no dialog, perfect casting. They also use a technique of persuasion that we should all keep in mind, which is to bridge from something we know (or at least think we know) to somewhere beyond.
We’ve all read stories of kids being prescribed Ritalin because they have a lot of energy rather than having a real mental health issue. The video then shows a similar connection between other psychiatric diagnoses and unconventional — often creative — people. We start from our opinions about Ritalin to naturally say “Yeah! She’s not bipolar, she’s an artist!” And maybe we’re now more sympathetic to the notion that all of these diagnoses are made up to enrich psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies.
And maybe we’re more sympathetic to the Citizen’s Committee for Human Rights, too. After all, they’re advocates for the individuality of children and opposed to society coming down on those who don’t conform.
But is it true? Are those diagnoses really fake? Are they simply unfair categorizations of exceptional people? Even if the Ritalin is widely mis-prescribed (and I have no idea if it is), does that support the broader conclusions?
I see it from a different perspective, which is as a reverberation of the disregard given by the psychiatric establishment to the “modern science of mental health” devised by a science fiction writer in the 1950s.
Whether anyone agrees with me or not about that, the video is very effective story telling.