Real People; Real Stories.
Here’s What’s New
From Fearing Food to Embracing it — Eating Disorder and OCD Recovery in the Kitchen
A cookbook author with an eating disorder and OCD finds recovery in connecting with people through baking.
All the Pain We Cannot See; Giovanna Errore’s Invisible Illness | RDID; 218
Writer and translator Giovanna Errore opens up about her fibromyalgia and anxiety.
Reintroducing “Kyle Secor’s Stomping Grounds”
Actor Kyle Secor returns to Baltimore, where he filmed “Homicide Life on the Street” for seven years, where he also faced and conquered personal demons.
Our Impact
Upcoming Events

Join us for RECOVERY DIARIES ON THE BIG SCREEN and witness eight moving stories of humans living with such mental health challenges as anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts and schizophrenia.
Please bring a plethora of friends and reserve your tickets in advance. The screenings are FREE and will be followed by talkbacks.
7pm EST Sunday, June 7 Online Screening of Recovery Diaries On The Big Screen, followed by talk back with Gabe, Glenn, and several film subjects
Our Films
Our Podcasts


Welcome to Recovery Diaries in Depth; a mental health podcast that creates a warm, empathic, and engaging space for discussions around mental health, empowerment, and change. The podcast is supported in full by the van Ameringen Foundation. Subscribe, like, share, and enjoy!
Like its parent website, Recovery Diaries, OC87 Recovery Diaries on the Radio provides a forum for thoughtful discussion of mental health issues and topics. Through audio interviews and commentary, the podcast brings light to the shadow that so frequently enshrouds mental illness. Co-created and hosted by Bud Clayman and Laura Farrell, OC87 Recovery Diaries on the Radio confronts and challenges the stigma of mental illness.
Our Essays
Dubious of Disclosure: Delving into my Depression
Disclosing depression may seem easy. After all, scarcely a day goes by when this celebrity or that one “comes out” as living with depression, or anxiety (two of the socially “acceptable” mental health diagnoses) but, for many people, talking openly about their mental health challenges, whatever those are, isn’t easy; it can be excruciating, and the very thought of being out in the open as someone living with mental illness can be incredibly, well, anxiety-provoking. Miriam Beigelman doesn’t take coming forward lightly, and she talks about this in her brave essay.
Chaos Comes to Light — A Therapist’s Life With AuDHD and Eating Disorder Recovery
A therapist with an eating disorder finally finds recovery after realising she has ADHD and autism.
Barefoot Mornings – A Walk to Calm My ADHD Brain
A young woman goes on a walk to clear her mind and cope with her struggles with ADHD and anxiety.
Collaborate

Hi! Are you facilitating a training? Putting together a mental health film festival or screening? Educating future mental health providers or educators? Speaking at a conference? Let’s collaborate!
We have dozens of professionally-crafted short-subject documentary films about extraordinary people living full lives with mental health challenges. Explore our film series about first responders, gunshot survivors, the LGBTQIA+ community, perinatal mental health and more. We’d love to partner with you; just drop us a line so we can figure it out!














