Watch Born Schizophrenic: January's Story For Free

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

It is a performances centric movie

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This was a very heart tugging story for me. It is hard, I'm assuming, for some people to grasp the emotional struggles and affects, raising a child with any kind of mental disorder puts on a family!!! My nephew struggles with Attention deficit hyperactive disorder. I can remember how hard it was to function in public, concentrate in school, play with other children, eat dinner.. so many things normal children can do! There are not a lot of options for a lower or mid income families to choose from when your child is being threatened to be kicked out of public school because he simply "Cant control himself". Its easy for an outsider to judge with only a small glimpse of what's going on in our day to day life, But until you have lived it and experienced it, you will never really know the "war". Januarys story shows a small insight of life with this struggle. I can only feel respect, compassion, and love for this family. Only the almighty knows why this beautiful gifted child was given such a high hurdle to leap, but she was given the perfect parents to raise her.

I don't know what the other reviewer is talking about, but I think Flanged should keep his biases out of reviews. The father does not have narcissistic personality disorder, and if you do not try to figure out what is wrong with your child when the police have to take your child away because she is trying to throw herself out the window at school and may hurt your newborn son, then there's something wrong with you as a parent. I think the "labeling" is necessary in order to get the child help. Born Schizophrenic is a great documentary detailing what it is like to be a child struggling with schizophrenia, and to be a parent trying to figure out what is best for your child. I let my mother, who is a psychiatric nurse, see this documentary, and she loved it. Now she wants to show it to her coworkers. I don't want to give too much away, but I highly recommend this film.

This is a very disturbing documentary about a father's struggle with undiagnosed and untreated Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome, and his painfully evident narcissistic personality disorder. These illnesses have resulted in his obsessive need to label his own daughter as an early-onset schizophrenic (a vanishingly rare condition), and to have her subjected to some of the heaviest and most dangerous drug therapies that modern American psychiatry has to offer.The daughter is a genius (IQ 146), and delightful, as well as being remarkably resilient in the face of the stigmatisation, reckless over-medication, and complete lack of freedom she has been subjected to during her short life.A searing indictment of the irresponsibility of the American medical profession, the modern tendency to "medicalise" or "pathologise" childhood, and the increasingly routine use of brutal adult anti-psychotic drugs on developing children in our society. .