BEDLAM immerses the viewer in the national crisis surrounding care of people with serious mental illness through intimate stories of patients, families, and medical providers.
Filmed over five years, Bedlam brings viewers inside one of America's busiest psychiatric emergency rooms, into jails where psychiatric patients are warehoused, and to the homes, and homeless encampments of members of our communities affected with serious mental illness, where silence and shame often compound personal suffering. The story is told in part by director Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, MD, a psychiatrist and filmmaker, whose own life journey has been profoundly impacted by a family member with a serious mental illness.