My Family, Mental Illness, and Me Bespoken Media

Norwegian film director and actor Camilla Strøm Henriksen's mother had a mental illness, and she channeled the experience into her film 'Phoenix'. As an older sister, she says she felt a great deal of responsibility to her younger brother.

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Neil Coyle has served as the Labour MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark in central London since 2015. His mum has schizophrenia, and her illness has played a big role in shaping his life.

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If you are affected by anything you hear in this podcast, there are people you can talk to for support. You can contact your GP, www.samaritans.org or www.childline.org.uk. If you are a young person, you could also talk to a teacher or other trusted adult.

As a globally respected expert on mental health nursing, Dr Kim Foster has spent decades researching the causes and impacts of mental illnesses. She tells Pamela how she spent much of her childhood in a care home, as a result of her mother’s severe mental illness.

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If you are affected by anything you hear in this podcast, there are people you can talk to for support. You can contact your GP, www.samaritans.org or www.childline.org.uk. If you are a young person, you could also talk to a teacher or other trusted adult.

Film director Iain Cunningham’s acclaimed documentary Irene’s Ghost is about his search for information about his mother, who died when he was three. Iain grew up not knowing anything about his late mother, who had suffered postpartum psychosis before her death.

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If you are affected by anything you hear in this podcast, there are people you can talk to for support. You can contact your GP, www.samaritans.org or www.childline.org.uk. If you are a young person, you could also talk to a teacher or other trusted adult.

Joe Wicks AKA The Body Coach grew up with a heroin-addicted dad and a mum with obsessive compulsive disorder. He tells Pamela that, despite "chaos and destructive behaviours", it was always a loving home.

If you would like to support children and young people living with parental mental illness, please donate to Our Time here: https://www.justgiving.com/ourtimeuk. To find out more about Our Time, please visit www.ourtime.org.uk/.

If you are affected by anything you hear in this podcast, there are people you can talk to for support. You can contact your GP, www.samaritans.org or www.childline.org.uk. If you are a young person, you could also talk to a teacher or other trusted adult.

Multi-award-winning screenwriter Kayleigh Llewellyn based her darkly comic BBC3 drama 'In My Skin' on her own difficult childhood, growing up in Cardiff with an abusive dad and a mum with Bipolar I Disorder.

To find out more about Our Time, please visit www.ourtime.org.uk/. If you are affected by anything you hear in this podcast, there are people you can talk to for support. You can contact your GP, www.samaritans.org or www.childline.org.uk. If you are a young person, you could also talk to a teacher or other trusted adult.

If you would like to support children and young people living with parental mental illness, please donate to Our Time here: https://www.justgiving.com/ourtimeuk