Can you make a film while having psychological health issues? Bud Clayman is carrying out it. Will creating a documentary about your psychological health issues modify your existence?
Quickly after faculty, psychological health issues interrupted Bud Clayman’s desires of a filmmaking career. Thirty decades later, he’s creating the film of his existence. A tale with universal relevance, OC87 is a wildly first film about pain and vulnerability, empowerment, and Bud’s quest for belonging.
All through his youth, Bud’s long run was filmmaking. After faculty in Philadelphia, he headed to Hollywood in research of a break. Alternatively, he experienced a breakdown. As psychological health issues struck, it stuck. When distress and isolation set in, the diagnoses adopted. For eight decades, Bud lived in a therapeutic community.
Without having waiting around for his health issues to vanish, Bud has reclaimed his quest as a filmmaker. As his digital camera chronicles the ups and downs of recovery, we also see the practical experience of what he phone calls “the struggle inside my head.” At the rear of the lens, a parallel journey unfolds as Bud the Director grapples with the troubles of creating an incisive, hugely personal documentary—a film that he thinks will completely transform his existence.
When problems hit the admirer, Bud from time to time feels defeated. Much more frequently, he draws energy and expertise from treatment, humor, and interactions. Even so, he feels various, and the stigma of psychological health issues is intense.
Meanwhile, directing this documentary film stretches Bud in strategies that finally recast his quest. From the shadows of suffering, a portrait of imperfect braveness emerges—a testament to acceptance, modify, and hope.
The LA Moments hailed OC87 as “uniquely inspiring.” The New York Moments identified as it “relocating, penetrating” and The New York Article explained, “it really is easy to cheer his best triumph.”
Great, honest and courageous film. I happen to love Buddy's laugh and that he laughs so much and connects so well with people throughout the film…who'd guess just from watching him interact so well with people that he fights the battle he fights.
Cheering on your success and growth Buddy and I really appreciate the film. It goes to show that with the right resources mental illness can be managed and life lived more fully, but sadly, only if you have access to those resources.
I found myself caught between cheering Buddy on and feeling a deeper sense of hopelessness…you can't get better without help and you can't get help without money…
I've struggled with major depression (and lord only knows what else) for a good dozen years (off and on throughout my life) along with serious cognitive decline and have to wonder how much better I might be and how different my situation and circumstances might be right now if I'd gotten the help I needed when I needed it.
If you're without money and/or someone who cares about your welfare and cares to help, your chances of getting better are nil.
A superbly made documentary. I wonder how Bud is getting on. Thanks for this! :)
I'm not a fan of the DSM-5. I've always thought that labeling 'mental conditions' / 'behaviour' somehow reinforces the problem.
27:30 … that therapist needs therapy. Physician heal thyself! :
How strange I should feel this way; but aside from his fairly extreme psychological challenges – I'm entirely envious of his life. His support network, opportunity and security is something absent in my life and I battle depression in a much more stressful and difficult World. Have done for most of my life.
I do wish him the best of course but I can't help think of the mentally ill who wash up on the streets…
I loved this movie. I grew up with my mom with bipolar disorder and many of the things you explained in this documentary I experienced with her as a child. In the moment I didn't understand what was going on, but with time I learned that mental illnesses are much more complex than just "having a bad day". I am studying hard to become a psychiatrist just to help people like you and my mother, find their place in this society. I really enjoyed your work and I hope you are still doing film projects. Looking forward to see more of your progress….
very interesting, but i d also like some subtitles too, so as to fully understand the meaning of it, as a person with hearing issues .
This guy is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo pathetic.
Totally excellent documentary!
Are there any plans in the works to make other films, if so I look forward to watching more.
Yep, your right Buddy, even if you don't make money at it your still helping people. So very generous of you to share yourself with the rest of the world.
H talks and acts very much like my husband. Even though he does have a lot to complain about. He complains all the time and I mean all the time and its very hard to be around him many times. When he's in a very bad mood, I have to tel myself "less is more" and get busy doing something away from him.
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Whole wheat has more gluten..may hurt more than white bread. Some people eat no grains…called Paleo to avoid gluten contamination. Gluten may destroy the intestines so they don't absorb. Teeth may get hurt by boxing. You are a great actor and Script writer! I am glad you are enjoying new goals and are getting better/healing. Best wishes.
i feel so good for this guy!
In California, it is illegal to bully at work.
What an absolutely fantastic show! Kudos to you sir! I hope that many more people get the opportunity to watch this beautifully honest insight into the world in which so many live, but so few understand! Thank you, my good man!
Rest peacefully, Morton.
maybe i have a touch of adult ADHD, but i found this movie very hard to get through. this man was boring, immature and self-indulgent. i just couldn't relate to him at all. it probably wasn't a good idea for him to have watched so much television when he was younger– tv really messes with the brain. anyway, his parents were adorable though.
this documentary just wasn't worth the time in my opinion.
This was fantastic!!!
I really enjoyed watching him and the boxing coach interact. Buddy actually genuinely looked like he was having a great time. The coach was fantastic in the way he interacted with Buddy too, so natural and as if Buddy was just any other person, didn't treat him like he 'had something wrong' with him.
His laughter is serious very cool! Yes man!
Can you please add subtitles? this message is worth sharing, but many don't understand audible English. salut! this movie is awesome, one of my favorite.
I don't have time to watch the video, but I'm saying this just in case people get the wrong idea:
Asperger's is not a mental illness. It should not be treated.
+FilmRise awesome movie, i also have AS. can you add english subtitles i will translate them to Polish in a 2 – 3 weeks. youtube supports vtt format if you don't know what is that… just pm me.
That took a lot of courage and intelligence. You are an inspiration, Mr Clayman. You also have a great sense of humour which I think has given you a lot of strength.
Gaadddiiissss
Bud, you really helped me :)
This guy is lovely. What a fabulous laugh!
So, awesome!!!! Thank you so much for sharing this.I wonder if you know how many people you will actually help. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This was awesome, especially loved the end with the lost in space shoot.
Kind of wondering if I might have asbergers since I have similar thoughts when in public, mine often being rapid and paranoid. This documentary really got me thinking about it in a different way.