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Mental Health Matters -
Alameda County, California

Transation Aged Youth

These shows focus on mental illness in a special population - youth between the ages of 16 and 24. In the first video, our guest is a woman who once was in this category and now has a good career and a hopeful outlook on life. In the second video, our guests are a youth who has been successful in working through mental health problems, and the director of the Transitional Age Youth program in Alameda County, California.

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Taped September 22, 2009.

Notes on music and art:
The composer of the music and the painters of the pictures used in the show lived with serious mental health problems.

Music:
Opening: Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
Closing music by BJ Phillips

Paintings:
Opening:
The Parable of the Good Samaritan by Francesco Bassano
Old Man in Sorrow by Vincent van Gogh

The Erythraean Sibyl (Sistine Chapel) by Michelangelo
Closing artwork by: Tony Montoya

Taped March 16,2011.

Notes on music:

Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky who suffered from "fits of madness."

Note: The views expressed on this program are those of the speakers and not necessarily those of Alameda County Behavioral Healthcare or Comcast.


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