you'll have anxiety we get nervous we
get affected by our emotions and for
some people it just is incredibly
heightened
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so I'm peg I have a question I watched
the movie this morning I just told you
very intense flick so what did you kind
of learn about mental illness from this
experience
well I learnt the distinction between I
think a lot of people when they think of
schizophrenia imagine a sort of person
with multiple personalities and that's
an entirely different conditions it's a
failure is something very different and
in order to sort of play the part of
Theo whose finds himself affected by it
I did a lot of research and obviously
tried to get it right did you feel a
responsibility in getting it right in
the fact that we do see so many films
where people with a mental illness just
come across as like crazy a hundred
percent and it just says a lot about our
lexicon is filled with words like oh
they're a bit mad and they're a bit
crazy and you know the notion of it is
banded around as a kind of a as an
insole and a way of sort of
marginalizing people you know the first
thing a lot of people do when they want
to marginalize an interesting voice is
sell their crazy how many times have you
heard that said about certain artists
who are innovative or interesting they
are they're crazy you know it's it's
it's a category which get people get put
into and it's immediately invalidate you
as a human being and you have been so
candid and being open about talking
about your own struggles and your own
demons so how did publicly talking about
that helped you in your own journey I've
been able to to address what I went
through and find my you know devices for
staying on top of there and I've had a
really great sort of 9 years since I
that all came to a head and it's nice
because they met of people that
afterwards came up and said all thanks
for saying that
and so that made it all worthwhile
enough and how do you think we can
collectively move towards like finally
do stigmatizing it I think we are I
think it's becoming more and more of a
topic of a conversation and and and not
seen as something which should be swept
under the carpet and I know also a
condition which is like like depression
which is completely different you know
is often seen as like a mood it's like
I'll cheer up you know that it's people
are starting to say that that's not it's
not as easiest
that's not what it is I think you heat a
right point there a lot of times when
you think people are happy or you know
you're a comedian you must love life but
really there is always something that
the people are struggling with yeah and
then the notion that you know you should
be happy as often is that can often make
it worse you're in a situation with hang
on I've got all this stuff that I I
shouldn't be happy and you're not it's
okay to feel like that you know it's
okay to feel that way and the best way
you can deal with it is to is to reach
out to someone and talk about it it's
okay not to be okay it's okay not to be
okay and what is your advice to the
people watching that perhaps honest
candid and maybe a bit scared of they're
talking about their own mental health
because I feel like it is a very
conversation right now it's not open no
it's not it's seen as being sort of
shameful it's it's an odd it's a hard
condition in any is purpose you know
multitude forms to quantify and to
describe you know because there are no
sort of physical symptoms there aren't
any rashes or it tends to it's
behavioural and that's how it manifests
so always talk about it always always
always always ask for help
always you know and befriend people the
friends that you have that are in that
situation be their friend don't sort of
like good way yeah thank you so much for
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