"I wasn't a patient. I was locked up" says Laura Ziegler who at age 17 was
locked up, diagnosed and forcibly drugged until a court ordered it stopped.
"They accidentally broke my arm" says Marj Berthhold relating to one of her
experiences in an institution. Co-director Nora Jacobson says
understanding the mind is what holds her interests in documenting
experiences such as Marj's in the film "Tremors in the System".
When what you thought was reasonable treatment becomes questionable.