Diaries of a Broken Mind- BBC 3

[pb&banana]

I watched the last part of it and i'm still with the same views. Plus they didn't appear to update on everyone though that could be due to the amount of people they had in the docu, I still would have liked to seen more information on how they are doing now.

[nowhereman]

I was asleep and missed it. Bummer.

[mark999]

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Originally Posted by Nikki Kaulitz

I was asleep and missed it. Bummer.

Always Iplayer =)

[chickenpie]

Can someone explain why the girl had bipolar ll and the boy had bipolar l what's the difference?

[fragile as glass]

I found it too jumpy. It went from one person to another then back again and apart from Dissociative Identity Disorder I don't think the illnesses were explained clearly enough. I had to watch the programme twice to really get a grip on it (I recorded it)

I thought it could have been more structured.

[Emmabob.]

it made me feel reallyyy sick cause of how shaky it was after about 20 mins, t'was good though.

[fragile as glass]

Bipolar 2 is a milder form of bipolar with less extreme highs and lows btw chickenpie

[Emmabob.]

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Originally Posted by chickenpie

Can someone explain why the girl had bipolar ll and the boy had bipolar l what's the difference?

as far as psychs have explained, bipolar 1 is full blown mania & psychosis, whereas 2 isnt usually as extreme (hypomania) & doesn't involve psychosis.

[sherlock holmes]

Yeah I have bipolar 2. I don't really get manic, just kind of 'up' with lots of ideas/racing thoughts then suicidal lows and sometimes combinations of both.

[chickenpie]

Thanks for explaining!

I too struggled with the jumpiness and didn't think it was that good really...

[Steel Maiden]

They didn't show anyone with psychosis on it. I was annoyed.

[pb&banana]

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Originally Posted by Steel Maiden

They didn't show anyone with psychosis on it. I was annoyed.

I was sure I saw in the trailer for it Schizoaffective disorder was in there and I was hoping Schizophrenia too but there was...nothing??

[Steel Maiden]

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Originally Posted by pb&banana

I was sure I saw in the trailer for it Schizoaffective disorder was in there and I was hoping Schizophrenia too but there was...nothing??

I saw that too. So I'm confused now.

I did not like this documentary for other reasons too though. It didn't show the true serious extent of mental illness.

[pb&banana]

I agree, felt a bit of a let down in my personal opinion.

[BridgesAndBalloons]

I felt let down too, especially it was advertised as 20+ people with mental illness/disorders taking you along with their day to day lives when it was only really a handful of people, and I felt it only followed more commonly known mental illness, DID, bipolar etc.

[Bellatrix]

As a fun fact, the psych hospital I was in was shown here descreibed as a 'dungeon' :P. It's not that bad.

[pb&banana]

Good to know :) ^^

[Field Of Paper Flowers]

Not sure what I thought about it. Think I found it interesting for the most part and it'll help people to understand some mental health issues more as some can be hard to explain at times.

I wouldn't mind seeing more documentaries like this on TV, it's interesting to watch. :)

[Bleeding Angel]

I think it would have worked better as a series of episodes rather than a 90min one off. With so many people it only really focused on a few with a few other people thrown in for 5 mins here and there, and again the ones focused more on where the more known mental health issues that always seemed to be focused on (with the exception of did). It would have been nice to focus on a wide range of people and illnesses but you would need much more time.

[not_so_insig]

I havent watched it, but I have it recorded. I dont think I will enjoy it due to the lack of psychosis, and the style it was shown in due to the comments here are to be believed.