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SCHIZOPHRENIA: THE VOICES IN MY HEAD

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Schizophrenia: The Voices in My Head (1 x 50)

A documentary tracking the daily lives, struggles and triumphs of some young Irish people living with schizophrenia.

For the first time on Irish TV these young people will speak openly about what it’s like to live with such a severe mental health disorder and struggle with delusional thoughts and the internal voices that are so associated with schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is one of the most serious and devastating of all mental health conditions. Even though Irish people are becoming much more willing to talk about mental health, so far those conversations have been around depression and anxiety. Other conditions are still pretty much taboo, and in particular, schizophrenia. In ‘Schizophrenia: The Voices in My Head’ we step inside the worlds of young people who are living with the condition.

They struggle socially and are prone to anxiety and depression. But the extraordinary thing is how they are managing – to whatever extent – to control the condition rather than let it control them. We will see these young people at their happiest and darkest moments. As one put it – ‘Thirty years ago I would have been locked up, medicated up to my eyeballs and abandoned in some institution, but that is changing’.