A love letter from the filmmaker and her husband to their daughter Corrina, "Drunk on Too Much Life" poetically and inti | dG1fOWdxZ0pBcHFZS2M
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00:00I feel like I'm trapped inside my own mind games.
00:08Monsters hide behind the doors of every room I walk into.
00:12I'm confused.
00:13Did they summon me, or did I explore enough to stumble upon them?
00:19Much less has to happen to a highly sensitive person to hurt them immensely.
00:25She was suffering greatly.
00:28I didn't know what it was exactly.
00:31Suddenly, personality and consciousness itself were no more than chemistry and narrow connections.
00:38You were seeing horrible scenarios in your head at all times and you weren't connecting
00:43to anybody.
00:44No.
00:45How about if your delusion is perfectly accurate?
00:48Let's consider that possibility.
00:50Who we are is shunned upon, but in a shamanistic culture, you're actually considered to be
00:58closer to the vibration levels of the universe.
01:02There's a thin line between having delusions and having insights.
01:07There can be connections to the divine.
01:11Like all the good parts of life, all at once, with the volume going, whooom, and it takes
01:16a while to learn what the price is and how to manage it.
01:21I don't take psych drugs to manage my mental illness, I take them to control my superpowers.
01:27Rather than seeing ourselves as diseased and disordered, we see ourselves as having
01:33dangerous gifts, like the Wings of Icarus.
01:42Whether or not you think it's an illness, it's still a human experience.
01:46This is not about mental illness, this is about human liberation.
01:53So Karina, how would you tell your story?
01:57We'll find our way
02:03Till my eyes
02:08Adjust to this dark
02:14This dark