We are now in the year of 2026 and PTSD is so profoundly misunderstood, and in proportion to the actuality of how severe PTSD is, the diagnosis is being so devalued that it’s damaging to treatment and therapeutic intervention for it on so many levels.

I want to make a documentary to inspire and educate the younger generational people in society to speak more solemnly and simply help them to understand that the severity of PTSD is not something to be taken lightly at all.

So many people with PTSD already live with shame that they embody the diagnosis and feel very outcasted by “normal people” who don’t experience what they experience. I could talk about the ways in which people with PTSD suffer, but also, why not reframe that, and highlight how remarkable the people who have people who have PTSD who actually work very hard in therapy to try to heal and address it because they don’t want to suffer. It takes courage to have enough grace for yourself and be gentle with yourself to embrace that part of yourself that knows you have the courage to address it and act up on it.... because you want to heal for yourself. Not heal for other people, or society, or because of the taboos and stigmas that continue to grow…but for yourself.

Im hoping with a documentary like this we can gradually diminish the old AND the new taboos and stigmas that are being added to PTSD because of peoples downright ignorance and if I'm calling a spade a spade….not have the capacity to censor themselves when they are so oblivious and/or arrogant that it actually becomes harmful to someone else. If many people already live with shame around having PTSD then what good could a meme do that essentially turns PTSD into something you share with your friends to have a good laugh together?

I want this documentary to educate young people not only by exposing them to other younger people with PTSD but also to help the younger generations who feel or fear they may have actual PTSD that there is no reason to feel shame for at the least simply addressing it in therapy, or to a friend or even a parent. AND that if the antiquated ideas and philosophies or suggestions or anything like that coming from a therapist or a psychiatrist or a PHD who comes to give a lecture at a college, if they don’t resonate with you….you don’t have to just surrender to the notion that because they have the titles or the degrees…that they are by default that the are accurate with their methods of treating PTSD and recognizing the possibility that some of the antiquated ways are in fact not effective anymore. And even if some are, that doesn’t entitle them to make you believe that if you don’t believe what they’re telling you then you won’t heal from your PTSD. And you only learn that when you try new therapists. THAT I can confidently say from personal experience. I suffered for a long time because of both psychiatric and therapeutic malpractice and I don’t have to anymore because I have 2 incredible therapist and 1 incredible psychiatrist.

I am extremely grateful for you taking the time to watch this video and I will gently ask for you to contribute to the funding of this film or share it with someone who you may feel this would resonate with.

Thank you so much.