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Beautiful ❤

I'm so sorry for your loss! I've never watched your channel but something drew me in today. God bless you. Family is complicated!!

The way you know that you need some boundaries is if you're human.

Shame on you……

Wow, this is such a refreshing perspective on mental health-thank you for sharing this! Your content has so much potential to reach and inspire a wider audience. If you fine-tune your video SEO (like optimizing your titles, tags, and descriptions), I’m confident even more people will discover and connect with your amazing work. Keep it up-you're doing something really meaningful!

AMAZING! 😊 Thank you for all that you do Jess.

Thank you Jessica. It was an honor to be at your release.

Thank you for including us in hearing your story. Your experience and the grace you’ve handled it with is leaving its mark on the world.

I watched the film and WOW. The film is exceptional and emotional. You are a strong person. And you made it a “good” story.

❤❤❤🎉From Scotland ❤x

Congratulations, Jessica. This is a beautiful film. 🥰

Phenomenal film, thank you so much. I'm sorry you had to go through that when you were younger. As a schizophrenic myself, it pains me to hear such things. Generally we're a threat to ourselves, far more than anybody else. I've chosen not to have kids, but maybe in another lifetime I could've had children. There's a fear that comes with paranoid psychosis, that feeling of persecution. Your story on Halloween sounds kind of like that fear. You had to fight with all your might to not have a breakdown. Medicine certainly helps control schizophrenic symptoms.

The takeaway from this is, don’t judge , inquire. We’re too quick to dismiss someone in genuine need of support. Thank you for addressing these issues.

Congratulations, this is great! wonderfully emotional Editing and graphics especially well done!

🎼Why did the monkey wrap his tail around the flagpole!? To see his @$$#%l€!!!! My dad would be singing along with yours! (arm in arm)....

so happy to have been able to connect with you! ❤

I met your partner today at sprouts farmers market and he told me about your documentary. I have a brother who suffers from schizophrenia, and your experience is deeply relatable to me and you’re so brave for giving others out there who have a loved one going through it in life by giving more perspective. Thank you.

I really liked your soft white underbelly, this is cool to actually see you with your father. Youre a beautiful angel and remind me of my mother in do many ways❤❤

When you ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart as Lord and Saviour of your life repent of your sins and be baptized for remission of your sins then you shall be saved by grace and the blood of Jesus Christ. Ps.With love only as your sister in Christ. 😇🙏💜

Jess, this is amazing! Thanks for sharing your story.

You should be so proud of yourself

Amazing stuff.

People are learning from your post. Thank you.

It's sad.....mental illness can turn people into what they don't want to be!

I grew up in chaos with a schizophrenic mother in the 60s & 70s, your documentary isn't the kind of thing I'd seek out to watch but it's something I need to see!

Jumped hear from Mark's channel. I had 6 older siblings. Most with some form of a mental illnrdd and all that comes with it from incarceration, psychiatric wards, overdoses, self-harm, alcoholicism, drug addiction. A sister went to prison for murder when I was three and my mom was never the same and died when I was 12. Life with the siblings was hell. I walked away intact (or so I thought). It wasn't until I lost my dad (who I adored) and had to find some way to help find a living space for my 44 year old sister that I was told her bizarre behavior was due to schizophrenia. I was crushed as I researched and realized none of her behavior was her choice. Couple of days later, I lost another sister due to self harm. The previous year I had lost my nephew and then my brother due to AIDS. Well, I went into full-blown meltdown, I thought I escaped and didn't love them because of the horrors they had made in my life. I was so wrong. Took me 2 years to recover and have never been the same for 30 years. Short story, so much better to face things head on and not run away. And better to love than bury it and pretend it doesn't exists. Denying both eat your emotions alive until a crushing blow or blows leave you unable to cope with your own life. 😔 What a privledge to see it done the right way. Kudos.

One of my oldest friends, known him around 20 years, has developed paranoia schizophrenia and with myself being one of the people he last trusted, eventually developed the belief that I'm part of one of his conspiracy theories. It's quite the thing to see of someone's cognitive functioning changing and how psychologically different it is to normal behaviour. It's definitely worth sharing your story.

Wonderful the way you conquered your fear of it - with love and letting your feelings flow out

I’m here after seeing you on Soft White Underbelly. What an incredible story. I don’t know your full experience but I do wonder how much of the terror was brought on by the reactions to your dads illness from the adults around you when you were a child… I can only speak from my own experiences and say that it has been my experience that from what I’ve witnessed, it seems that the reactions to mental illness can really exacerbate the situation and breed more fear. I don’t deny there was violence, threats and stalking but I do wonder how much of that was because of the reactions to his illness. Thank you so much for sharing your story and memorializing your dad in this way. ❤ beautiful job Be blessed, beautiful soul 💜

Jessica you are so loving, and brave, and vulnerable, and wise, and kind in this interview with your father. He is so lucky that you reconnected with him, and I think you feel that way too, despite the pain, that it also brought love, and understanding, and connection, and even joy into an equation - relationship - which before held primarily fear and pain. I am sorry for your loss, and so glad that you could both experience healing time together, and loving each other, before his death. You are an incredible person, and I wish you the best.

This is a truly beautiful film, full of honesty and painful truth; bravery, love, and hope.

What a beautiful, healing, and inspirational story you've created. It will bless many who have experienced similar challenges when faced with schizophrenia. Your authenticity, acceptance, and love for you and your dad is so powerful.

Incredibly well done! I especially enjoyed the art work and graphics as a means to support the narrative descriptions! Cheers! ❤

Hi, I'm Elizabeth from California USA nice meeting you.

Wow. Wow, wow. Many. many congratulations on such a beautiful piece of art you created. Raw & deeply touching, it evokes tenderness and inspires reflection with the challenge of removing the limitations of only our own experience; our own perspective. I loved how the graphics/art evolved as your words unfolded and continued to describe or explain. That was so beautifully paired. I know it is only a mere glimpse into your journey of healing and unpacking all of those many years, but the honesty and openness you shared with me (the veiwer/audience) was so palpable. Your choice of acceptance and ability to move through it all in reconnecting, interacting, all of it, was so deeply inspiring and profoundly lovely.

No other words other than beautiful. Touched my heart and soul. Truly a wonderful reminder that our parents also deal with their traumas, and it's for us to heal our own, yet still love them. Once this is understood, love is so much stronger than the anger and hate.

Jess, Beautiful project! Spot on view of mental health outstanding. We had tears in our eyes. Thank you !!!!

I’m so proud of you. You poured your heart into this and it shows. ❤

This is such an honest and powerful story. Thank you for sharing your light and I’m so proud of the courage you’ve chosen and that you use your experience to uplift others ❤

Congratulations Jessica. It's tender and lovely. What a beautiful tribute.

Thank you so much for sharing. Feeling the fear, the sad, the anger, the frustration. Standing in the center, looking back, looking forward, looking all around, feeling the limitless possibilities grounded in hope, love, and awareness.

Jess: Thank you for opening your heart wide open. You are amazing. Praying God uses this video to help others. hugs and so much love. John and Liz

BRAVO jessica !! Big Hugs from Wanaka <3<3

My heart aches for you yet having lived through the madness of it all with my adult son, I see hope for a calmness on the horizon in this film. I wonder how to get there.

This helps me see into my son's soul a bit more. Altho we are close everyday. The bit about genius, he was. It's sad to have our brilliant loved ones brains slip into this darkness. I'm glad he never lost his love and compassion for the family and friends that love him. He is sweet and gentle. And still enjoys life.

Thank you for this. Have you read any of John Weir Perry? His life’s work focused on treating schizophrenic patients through non pharmaceutical treatments. If you haven’t I would recommend starting with The Far Side of Madness. Thank you for your love and work.

I cried through this whole video. My son is schizophrenic and I've been having the hardest time ever dealing with it. I love him with all of my heart, but I'm still in the angry stage. Not so much at him but at the disease. This video was good!

Amazing , thanks for sharing this hit home.

Hi Jessica, I loved your film! It gives me such heart, you are fantastic for sharing your stories. My dad too, carries such duality in his life, both loving and terrible. It was so touching to see you applying nail polish (his favorite colors?), I will be thinking of you when I give my dad his next manicure. Thank you, thank you❤

Congratulations and how exciting for you! I can imagine a lot of heart and soul went into this project, and hard work. Can't wait to watch it.