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After a burnout due to stress, Dutch director Sunny Bergman decided to investigate how people deal with spiritual strain and depression in countries that seem less affected by it.

Episode 3/3 - Brasil

In this episode Sunny Bergman visits Brazil where spirituality is very popular. There, feeling "normal' doesn't mean the same as it does in The Netherlands. Sunny explores the Afro-Brazilian religion and rituals “Candomble”, where behavior isn't seen as part of your personality, because it's influenced by ghosts. Blurring the frontiers of what is normal or not, making any behavior more easily accepted in society.

Does spirituality contribute to our mental health? Four out of ten people in the Netherlands suffer from depression, insomnia, ADHD and stress. Sunny Bergman studied how people in Ghana, Taiwan and Brazil deal with these psychological symptoms, in an often spiritual way. These 3 countries are just as modern as western countries, but there, traditional rituals are treated as powerful medicine. Does that approach work? And what is a normal mental condition anyway? There is hardly any country in the world that spends so much money on mental health care as the Netherlands. Where do all these mental problems come from? Are they diseases arising from abundance?

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Director: Sunny Bergman
This is a co-production of VPRO and BOS
English, French and Spanish subtitles by Ericsson and co-funded by the European Union.