Me and My...

Me and My Mental Illness (1x3)

Air date: Nov 03, 2016

What does if feel like to experience a flash of rage so all-consuming that for a moment, you lose all awareness of the world around you; an anxiety so crippling, you couldn't possibly leave your house; a compulsion to repeat obsessive, destructive and seemingly pointless behaviours preventing you from holding down a job? Each of these stories sound extreme but they all have the unifying symptom of something familiar to all of us - anxiety. In this poignant film, we hear the stories of eight victims and survivors of mental illness and chart their descent into 'insanity': the first signs of their world falling into disorder; the behaviours they developed; the triggers, strategies and medications they tried; their rock bottoms and relapses and ultimately how they fought their way to recovery.