Real People; Real Stories.
Here’s What’s New
How Overcoming Anorexia Laid the Groundwork for Living with Chronic Illness
A young woman struggling with an eating disorder, anxiety, and chronic illness finds peace through mindfulness and writing.
Bipolar Disorder, Love, and Breathless Creativity; Casey Cannizzaro | RDID 220
Casey Cannizzaro talks openly about his life with bipolar disorder and addiction.
Living Life Fully: The Helping Power of Service Dogs
A film that profiles service dog trainer Casey Buckley and shows the impact that service dogs have on the quality of life of their handlers.
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
Childhood Trauma and Abandonment: My Long BPD Path to Recovery
From abandonment and shame to diagnosis and healing, Lisa’s story reveals the lifelong impact of trauma—and the courage to stop abandoning herself.
Why Do You Do That: My Journey with OCD
Follow Rosie’s candid personal essay on living with OCD, exploring compulsions, control, perfectionism, and the quiet question that changed everything: “Why do you do that?”
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.
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!














