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Strive For Happiness wins
2008 Silver Telly Award!!
Strive For Happiness won a 2008 (1st place) Silver Telly Award in the Television Documentary category.
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Strive For Happiness wins
2008 Silver Telly Award!!
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"A film about the lives of those who live with or care for loved ones who suffer from serious forms of mental illness."
About the Filmmaker
Richard M. Patricia is a graduate of Wilkes University with an MS in Science with an emphasis on Classroom Technology, William Paterson University with a B.S. in Communications and Northampton Community College with an Associates degree in Radio/Television. He is certified to teach in five areas of the communications field. He worked for CNBC, Twin County Cable, RCN, Comcast Cable, and a variety of radio stations. For six years, he produced daily segments for RCN's broadcast of the Philadelphia Eagles Training Camp. Rich produced a video entitled "The Lehigh Valley's Best Kept Secret" which was submitted to become a nominee for an Emmy Award. He is currently employed as a Television, Radio & Digital Media Teacher at Warren County Technical School in Washington, NJ. Rich has been involved in wedding and event videography business for over 21 years and exclusively with D-Vision Video for the last fifteen years where his work has won several awards through WEVA (Wedding Event & Videographer's Association) and the NJVA (New Jersey Videographer's Association). His film, "Strive For Happiness" was recently awarded a 2008 Silver Telly Award (1st place award).
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Sunday, August 03, 2008 By BILL WICHERT
The Express-Times PHILLIPSBURG
Richard Patricia traveled across the state to ask people hundreds of questions about growing up with a loved one suffering from a mental illness. But telling his own story remains difficult for the Warren County Technical School teacher. Patricia's story is one of sometimes spending more time at Warren Hospital than at home. It is a story of losing one's home in the face of medical expenses. The healing is the part of the story that Patricia wants to share through a documentary he produced. "There are some things you just don't want to talk about," the television, radio and digital media teacher said. "You tend to try to forget about some things that have taken place in life and move to a bright future." Patricia's relative, whom he asked not be identified, has obtained a degree of self-sufficiency and lived alone the past 13 years. In his film, "Strive for Happiness," he tries to show how families overcome the challenges of caring for a relative with a mental illness. The interviews in the film bring out several common struggles, including financial hardships, the feeling of not knowing where to go for help and the need to allow a loved one to become more self-sufficient, Patricia said. "You have to see that person hit bottom to get better but always support the person," Patricia said. The Phillipsburg resident's film should help eliminate the stigma attached to the diseases, said Debra Wentz, CEO of the New Jersey Association of Mental Health Agencies.
"Ignorance breeds fear," she said. "I'm very supportive of anything that's so educational." Patricia said he began to notice signs of his relative's mental illness when he was about 12 years old in the early 1980s. A teenage Patricia was soon playing pingpong at the hospital on a regular basis, while his loved one lay comatose in a bed.
"I found myself in a situation where I had to grow up pretty fast," Patricia narrates in the film. "There wasn't a thing I could do for her. I felt pretty helpless." Patricia kept a journal while growing up and later penned a script for a class at Northampton Community College. About three years ago, sitting amid the Smoky Mountains on a family vacation, he sat down at night and returned to his story. Finishing the film has brought closure to that chapter in his life, he said. One of the film's lasting messages is that there's hope for families dealing with mental illness, Patricia said. "These folks need to be treated like human beings," he said. "The mentally ill are very much self-sufficient and need to be. "But they also need the support and they need the care and they need the love."
Reporter Bill Wichert can be reached at 908-475-8044 or by e-mail at bwichert@express-times.com.
Sunday, August 03, 2008 By BILL WICHERT
The Express-Times PHILLIPSBURG
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Children growing up alongside the rise of social networking websites may have a "potentially dangerous" view of the world, says a leading psychiatrist.Dr Himanshu Tyagi said sites such as Facebook and MySpace may be harmful.He told the Royal College of Psychiatrists annual meeting people with active online identities might place less value on their real lives.And the West London Mental Health NHS Trust expert added this could raise the risk of impulsive acts or even suicide. Dr Tyagi said that people born after 1990 did not know a world without the widespread use of the internet.
He warned that the current crop of psychiatrists were perhaps not fully prepared to help young people with internet-related problems.
While social networking sites offered great benefits, he said, there were potential pitfalls. everything moves fast and changes all the time, where relationships are quickly disposed at the click of a mouse, where you can delete your profile if you don't like it, and swap an unacceptable identity in the blink of an eye for one that is more acceptable." "People used to the quick pace of online social networking may soon find the real world boring and unstimulating."It may be possible that young people who have no experience of a world without online societies put less value on their real world identities and can therefore be at risk in their real lives, perhaps more vulnerable to impulsive behaviour or even suicide."
He called for more investigation and research into the issue.
However, Graham Jones, a psychologist with an interest in the impact of the internet, said that while over-use of social networking sites could lead to problems, the risks posed by them had been overplayedChildren growing up alongside the rise of social networking websites may have a... more
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