• Darrell Kaiser
    • 5 years 4 months ago
    • Posts: 2
    		 Saturday morning cartoons during the 90’s were peppered with depressing public service announcements that would haunt your entire weekend and sometimes for your entire life. One set of these ads that really sunk into my mind were the ones for the Charter Ridge Behavioral Health System. Being so young, I had no idea what Charter was for, but I knew it wasn’t a happy place to go to. I look back in memory of these commercials and only remember just a handful. I had hoped that someone on YouTube would have uploaded them, but I only managed to find one. I’m sort of writing this to see if anyone else remembers them and hopefully someone can upload them. The ones I remember, starting with what I thought was the most scary and impressionable one, were showing a woman in DEEP depression waking around her home with her inter thoughts thinking, “I’m scared, I want to die, Leave me alone, So what” That voice and image haunted me as I lied in bed. I may have thought that something like that would happen to my mother and she would be sent away and I couldn’t do anything about it. The other one delt with an alcoholic father and his son. This one, I thought, along with my older brother, was more humorous, but the subject manner was not. It didn’t strike at me as hard as the one with the depressed woman. Again, this happened with a son asking his dad about his mom in an obvious depressed state. It was more humorus, meaning we could make fun of it. This is the only one I found on YouTube. If anyone has these commercials, PLEASE find a way to upload them. I’d love to check them out again.
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