Episode 2

Adults Living with Mental Illness

An open and honest look at how mental illness impacts the lives of two adults from very different backgrounds, who struggle with very different illnesses. Our two subjects, Amy and Richard, reveal their personal and powerful stories in a way that will make you laugh, cry, and feel hope for the future.

Broadcast:

Premieres Thursday, January 29th at 9 p.m.

Person Profiles

Amy

At 4:30 AM, I spring out and I’m off to the gym for my usual two hour minimum workout. I sleep about an hour tops. When I close my eyes, I feel like I’m being dragged into a torture chamber. I guess it’s the fear, it’s the fear of losing control.

I’ve been like this a long, long time. Even as a kid I wouldn’t go to sleep. I was afraid my father, I don’t know, was gonna do something or other. So I would just stay up all night waiting, you know, to hear the footsteps…

Richard

Depression for me was like being trapped in a phone booth and when I tried to pick up the receiver to dial out the line was dead. I felt like my world had collapsed and that I was stuck under the heel of a giant. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t go anywhere.