From Executive Producers
Rainn Wilson (NBC’s The Office)  and Jeff Orlowski-Yang (Netflix’s The Social Dilemma)

From Executive Producers
Rainn Wilson (NBC’s The Office)
and Jeff Orlowski-Yang
(Netflix’s The Social Dilemma)

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Reimagining
Mental Health

Reimagining Mental Health

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Watch director Alex Banayan discuss the mental health crisis with Rainn Wilson

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Rediscover what
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Rediscover what makes you

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One hundred people take a leap of faith and participate in a radically new solution to the youth mental health epidemic.

In this character-driven verité film, we follow three college-aged characters who are gripped with extreme depression, anxiety, and loneliness — intimately tracking their fraught and uncertain journey to healing.

The clock is ticking as a team of renegade researchers at Columbia University race to test this novel approach and see if it’s possible to have long-lasting effects on mental wellbeing — without use of doctors, pharmaceuticals, or charging a single dollar.

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Over the past few years, more teenagers have died by suicide than ever in American history.

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The CDC reports that nearly one in three high school girls is seriously considering killing themselves.

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The youth suicide rate increased 62% across all fifty states over the past fifteen years.

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And a recent Harvard study showed that nearly 50% of young Americans are either depressed, anxious, or would rather not be alive.

Most people say this problem is sadly too complicated and the solutions are too expensive. But after three years of interviewing experts from all sides of this epidemic, what we’ve learned is:

Most people say this problem is sadly too complicated and the solutions are too expensive.

But after three years of interviewing experts from all sides of this epidemic, what we’ve learned is:

The problem is simple.

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