Boy Interrupted

A documentary about the suicide in 2005 of Evan Perry, a 15-year-old boy from New York.

Perry came from a family with a history of mental illness; his uncle had committed suicide at age 21. Evan had been diagnosed with depression and prescribed Prozac, then rediagnosed with bipolar depression and prescribed mood stabilizers, namely Lithium, and later received milieu therapy, which brought relief for a time. However, aged 15, he jumped to his death from his family's apartment window.