Mara Wilson: Teaching Mental Illness Through Popular Media

“I think that sometimes people don’t want to believe that children that young can suffer from mental illness.”
Drawing from personal experience, actress Mara Wilson understands the value of media like books and movies in helping kids better understand mental illness.

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Thank you for speaking about this!! Mental illness can happen at any age and of any walks of life!! I suffer from it too and unfortunately have no way to get any help but finding this video truly took some of my depression away even if for a moment

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Her speaking was awesome even in Thomas and the magic railroad

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I Agree 100% Because I Was Having A Hard Time In Life When I Was Back I in School And I Have Autism Ever Since I Was 4 Years Old I Would Always Get Very Sad And Depressed Back In And Now I Am Starting Out As A Filmmaker And Writer And I Films Ever Since I Was 4 Years Old And I Always Loved Making Films Ever Since I Was 17 Years Old And Now I Am 20 Years Old And I Graduated From High School I Want To Make Films For Rest Of My Life And Maybe Some Day I Will Meet Mara Elizabeth Wilson And Be Best Friends With Her Some Day And Maybe Some Day I Can Collaborate With Mara Elizabeth Wilson Some Day And She Is Friendly And Hilarious And Sweet Girl And To Me Would Make Awesome Best Friend Someday And She Makes Me Laugh At At Her Very Hilarious Jokes.

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She’s inspiring

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Matthew James Bianchi’s Truth About His Talent To Hate Matilda Wormwood Daniel Michael Devito Jr. decided not realize that Mara Elizabeth Wilson met Thomas the Tank Engine through Thomas And The Magic Railroad at all. I had my permission to hate Matilda throughout my talent to hate her when I heard many dangerous bad guy villain examples about the way that her dangerous Harry Wormwood dad called her a stupid smart-aleck and got her into trouble for choosing to look kinda like the really smart kid and the stupid smart-aleck. I’m interested in Mara Elizabeth Wilson as Thomas the Tank Engine’s brand-new friend, Lily, the girl that turned out to be Mr. Burnett Stone’s 11-year-old granddaughter in Thomas And The Magic Railroad instead of dangerous stupid smart-aleck daughter Matilda Wormwood. I wanted to see her make her brand-new friends with Thomas and his gang of talking Island of Sodor trains and talking Island of Sodor non-train vehicles and Mr. Conductor. She did it with the help of Mr. Conductor’s cousin, C. Junior, the resident of the beach that stuffed the rainbow-colored party poppers down Thomas’s short stumpy smokestack funnel to make Thomas get very angry at him, but the good and happy news to know was that Thomas was so happiest to make his brand-new friends with Lily because he made brand-new friends with a brand-new girl.