The Myth of the Mental Health System
V I d e o s b Y b L e S s I n g S s t r A N d e d
PSYCHIATRY’S MIRROR II
HELP YOURSELF
April 12, 2025
Both prior to and after the release of The Myth of the Mental Health System I intended for there to be a video version of the entire work and a standalone video of Help Yourself to be released shortly after. However after a series of developments both in and out of my control, Psychiatry’s Mirror II & Help Yourself have ended up being the only chapters to receive footage. I sincerely apologize to anyone and everyone who was waiting for the full work to be released in video format; willing to sit through the 12+ hours that it would’ve been. A video for the full work isn’t 100% off the table forever, but the amount of work required is precisely why it went into development hell. That’s at least 50 hours of recording at my peak speed and at least three to four times that in editing & quality assurance. The whole video project at my peak output would take a literal month of straight labor and that is at a bare minimum with no days missed. Seeing how unrealistic this ended up being while I had the free time to put it together, I highly doubt it would be any more realistic in the future when my life is much more active.
Part of it was due to back to back health problems, part of it was due to my brain refusing to do it due to being overwhelmed by the size of the project, part of it was due to the density of Myth, part of it was the fact that I have been sitting on ideas I’ve wanted to put out into the world for over 2 years now because of how long Myth and Growing Up Black In America took and I am so sick of waiting any longer, and part of it was that life circumstances have changed and I need to act accordingly. It sucks that the rest of Myth can’t see the light of footage considering 1. Psychiatry’s Mirror II, Help Yourself, and Shattered Glass are the three chapters that give Myth a mind, heart, and soul respectively, 2. the fact that I will never write anything better than Myth and especially Shattered Glass, 3. that I want as many people as possible to know about Myth and a full video would enable the most attention possible, 4. it’d be very cool to have a video on my page over 12 hours that is worth watching, 5. I sincerely think Myth is one of the greatest things ever written, and 6. the consumption of Myth is paramount for anyone to have any chance at perceiving me properly—but I am unable to justify the investment. I even actually began filming Myth and still couldn’t get myself to continue. My experience working on these two videos only confirms the idea of Myth’s full video release being extremely unrealistic. I love the idea of it, but that’s not enough.
I really really tried to make the full video work but that is precisely why 3 months passed and next to no progress was made. In comparison, even with the numerous health issues I had going on; had I known I’d only be doing two chapters, they still could’ve been done due to the significantly reduced investment, time frame, and exhaustion.
I sincerely apologize (to those that were here prior to 2025) and I hope the two isolated releases leave you feeling satisfied on some level.