My Mind and Me | Newsbeat Documentaries
BBC Newsbeat・29 minutes read
Two individuals, Bex and Gemma, share their struggles with mental health disorders, including eating disorders, anxiety, and depression, detailing their daily routines, coping mechanisms, and challenges faced in seeking help and recovery. Both navigate through various treatments, medications, and therapy sessions, highlighting the ongoing battle with mental health issues, the importance of self-care, and the journey towards healing and acceptance.
Insights
- Bex, a young adult with multiple mental health conditions, including bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and OCD, avoids odd numbers due to superstitions, showcasing the intricate interplay between personal quirks and serious mental health challenges.
- Gemma, a nurse with a complex array of mental health diagnoses, such as depression, social anxiety disorder, and OCD, navigates a daily routine that includes both coping mechanisms like tai chi and struggles like using alcohol inappropriately, illustrating the multifaceted nature of managing mental health conditions in everyday life.
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What mental health conditions does Gemma have?
Gemma has depression, social anxiety disorder, OCD, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and insomnia.
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Summary
00:00
"Struggles with mental health and recovery"
- Bex, nearly 24, avoids odd numbers due to bad luck, loves cats, has bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and OCD.
- Started losing weight at 16, developed anorexia, felt guilty eating, compulsively exercised, impacting her photography job.
- Hit rock bottom on November 20, 2016, set small recovery goals like starting tai chi, doing yoga, and planning a skydive.
- Joined the navy, experienced panic attacks, suicidal thoughts, struggled with anxiety, and inability to function.
- Gemma, 23, a nurse from Dundee, diagnosed with depression, struggled at work, felt alone, sought counseling, found it challenging.
- Gemma diagnosed with depression, social anxiety disorder, OCD, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and insomnia.
- Gemma's routine includes taking medication, watering plants, knitting, and eating beans on toast, overcoming guilt around eating.
- Gemma engaged in tai chi, plans to do yoga, used alcohol as a coping mechanism, but realized it worsened her depression.
- Gemma described depression as a daily battle, feeling overwhelmed, and misunderstood by others who don't grasp its severity.
- Gemma faced anxiety during a medication pickup, felt overwhelmed by noise, received medication, and felt relieved but still anxious.
17:56
"Anxiety, Diagnosis, and Workaholism: A Personal Journey"
- Normal day, woke up at 5 am for a 6 am to 3 pm shift, early shift.
- Received a call from an insurance company about auto-renewing car insurance for £3000, causing significant stress.
- Participated in real life, feeling like a failure and weak due to anxiety.
- Referred self to counseling, facing a 14 to 16-week waiting period, frustrating but necessary step.
- Work is a profession and escape, a place where worries disappear, making the individual a workaholic.
- Saw a psychiatrist, diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorder with strong schizotypal features.
- Experienced severe anxiety, paranoia, and unusual thinking, struggling to understand the diagnosis.
- Had suicidal thoughts in the past, but not recently, felt overwhelmed and low.
- First counseling session after a year of depression diagnosis, felt more comfortable and at ease with emotions.
- Visual images causing intense fear, changed goals to be less intense, feeling excited and nervous about a massage experience.
38:08
"Anxiety, Paranoia, and Recovery: A Mental Journey"
- The eyes represent feelings of paranoia or suspicion towards others, with a figure symbolizing anxiety, a brain representing the self, and a question mark denoting a new diagnosis causing confusion. The individual struggles with overthinking, mental dependence on alcohol, and the fear of recovery from an eating disorder, while starting a new medication and facing the challenge of waiting for results.
