Author: Louise Grainger
Mark Lockyer: ‘I was convinced I would die if I went back on stage’
Mark Lockyer, a leading classical actor who has worked with both the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Globe and the National Theatre and now back with the RSC, tells of his own battle with mental illness and keeping well.
Ruby Wax talks about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder –
Launched in May 2008, BBC Headroom was a two year mental health and wellbeing project which aimed to raise awareness of the importance of good mental health. Ruby Wax hosted a weekly web-chat covering a range of different mental health and wellbeing issues drawing on her psychotherapy training and personal experience of depression.
Postnatal depression: “I felt like I was limping through a permanent twilight”
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch writes for BBC Radio Comedy, Huffington Post UK and Standard Issue. Here she shares her experience of postnatal depression and encourages us all to bring the subject out of the dark.
Carey Mulligan becomes Dementia Friends Ambassador
Actress Carey Mulligan’s has been appointed by the Alzheimer’s Society and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt as the UK’s first global Dementia Friends Ambassador. Here she talks to the BBC about it
Bipolar: Adam Deacon and Stephen Fry on ‘lifelong struggle’
Actor Adam Deacon talks about living with bipolar disorder with actor and fellow sufferer Stephen Fry. The interview was first shown on the Victoria Derbyshire Show on BBC2 on August 8th. The programme research team had contacted ArtsMinds for background and they interviewed Dr Carol Chapman who is one of BAPAM’s psychology practitioners.
What’s behind stage fright?
Stage fright has not been heavily studied, which is strange because it is common not only among those who make their living on the stage but among the rest of us, too. In 2012, two researchers at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Karen Dwyer and Marlina Davidson, administered a survey to 815 college students, asking them to