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Stigma haunts mentally ill Latinos
Gabriela Martinez always spent a lot of time in bed, and she rarely laughed, or even spoke. For decades, her family shrugged off this unusual behavior as nervios, or “nerve problems.”
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Vintage Movie on Remedies for Boredom & Depression: The Empty Life DVD (1963)

• Title: The Empty Life
• Year: 1963
• Run Time:23:00
• Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White

The Empty Life is ostensibly about psychological “boredom,” which resembles modern depression. The film depicts several dramatizations of different people who are bored with their lives and have developed some neurotic compensating behavior or other problem. Ann Galloway, a bored housewife, anesthetizes herself with alcohol, the grocer who lives down the street is a nymphomaniac, and Hugh Marriott hates his job but can’t quit because his domineering wife won’t let him. Hugh is the star of the show, and the film shows how his mother (also domineering) and his wife have ruined his life and the life of his son. This movie has themes that are very typical of the 1950’s, including blaming women for men’s “problems” while ignoring the fact that women’s lives were usually even more boring, confined, and depressing than the men they were supposedly bringing down. A weird jazz soundtrack and heavy-handed narration adds to the camp factor of this film, but there are moments when the pain of the

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