Moving from The Quiet Room and into The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

I'm thinking =====Thinking:

As I finish up reading the postings and blogs and papers in response to The Quiet Room, I am blown away by students' insight into how the stories in Lori Schiller's book seem to complicate the stories we have already heard about mental illness through film, television, advertising, etc.

We are bombarded with advertisements about various medications that can help individuals with mental illnesses such as depression, OCD, schizophrenia, etc. This is new to those of us who grew up in the 20th century and got our medical information from friends (often in whispered conversations) and from doctors (and sometimes, only if we asked for help).
FOr instance, I have seen this commercial many times this week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGymr78FtbU

And this one, more recently, about Seroquel XR:
http://alittlespark.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/new-seroquel-xr-commercial/
Note that the blogger makes a reference to the cloud that follows the depressed people around.

I'm wondering if Lori Schiller made a commercial for Clozapine, what it would look like.
I'm thinking it would include clouds, blobs, Voices, and some weird outfits.

Did you know that in 1994 Lori Schiller (Baach)was"approached by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now Novartis), the makers of Clozaril [...] to tour the country on their behalf" - giving speeches about her life with support from her mother who traveled with her? Wow!  ("Afterword" - added in 2011, p. 267)

If I were doing a commercial for the various medicines I've been on over the years, I think I would have to include music as a key part, and I'd have to invite Adam Ant to be in the commerical (even though he lives with bi-polar disorder and I have anxiety and dysthymia (low grade depression), I have loved his music for 30+ years, and I think he'd have a lot to say about living with  mental illness. :)
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-adam-ant-on-returning-to-music-from-bipolar-disorder-20130219
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/9809653/Adam-Ant-interview-You-should-never-feel-ashamed-of-madness.html

Kia Jane