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Teen Mental Health – AFTERTASTE & INTRUSIVE

Season 3 Episode 301 | 26m 46s

Since the Covid pandemic, few groups have been more impacted by mental health than teenagers. Leaders call it the public health crisis of this generation. In her film AFTERTASTE, filmmaker Ellie White recounts a life-threatening eating disorder and the courage it took to recover. And in INTRUSIVE, filmmaker Alexander Welty unveils the obsessional thoughts that have plagued him since childhood.

Aired: 03/31/26 | Expires: 10/14/29
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
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Poetic filmmaking, memory, and metaphor in addressing today’s complex social issues.
Immigration in the U.S. through the eyes of youth and families who are most impacted.
Are “Team Light Skin” and “Team Dark Skin” the new monikers of colorism in the U.S.?
Representations of transgender lives through the eyes of young Americans.
Two teens take aim at abusers and online predators while helping heal their families.
Two teens take aim at the stereotypes they face being blind and autistic.
The human costs of immigration as told through immigrant families and refugees.
Suicide and mental health in black families as told through those left to grieve.
What happens when teenagers reject self-policing?
Two young filmmakers recount domestic violence in their high school relationships.
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