An 11-part film miniseries that follows one man’s unique quest to understand his own mental health. Part 1: Twink, the band and bipolar
Watch part 3 of Last Chance Saloon, our 11-part film miniseries that follows one man’s unique quest to understand his own mental health. This time, Twink looks into schizophrenia.
Watch part 4 of Last Chance Saloon, our 11-part film miniseries that follows one man’s unique quest to understand his own mental health. This time, Twink gets an MRI scan of his brain, in the hope it might shed some light on his illness.
Watch part 5 of Last Chance Saloon, our 11-part film miniseries that follows one man’s unique quest to understand his own mental health. This time, Twink finds out about post-partum psychosis and meets Clare, who has first-hand experience of the illness.
Watch part 6 of Last Chance Saloon, our 11-part film miniseries that follows one man’s unique quest to understand his own mental health. This time, Twink is on Newsnight and explores ADHD.
One man’s quest to understand his own mental health. In part 7 of our film series, Twink explores post-traumatic stress disorder and reveals some painful truths about his past.
One man’s quest to understand his own mental health. In part 8, The Tinstones’ rehearsals continue apace but Twink enters one of his severe depressions.
One man’s quest to understand his own mental health. In part 9 of this film series, Twink talks Harley-Davidsons and Alzheimer’s disease.
One man’s quest to understand his own mental health. This week, Twink and Nick tease out the causes and treatments of bipolar disorder, addressing one of Twink’s major concerns: will it affect his children?
One man’s quest to understand his own mental health. In the final episode, The Tinstones perform their first ever live gig and Twink reflects on how meeting scientists has changed his understanding of bipolar disorder and mental illness.
How do I explain an existence dominated by the bleakest, darkest moods? And do I even want to? By Jenny Diski.
What’s it like to hear voices? Are they hallucinations or a normal human experience? Chris Chapman explores what they are, why they happen and how they are being understood.
In every country in the world, male suicides outnumber female. Will Storr asks why.
Notoriously illegal and synonymous with hedonism, LSD and ecstasy started life as aids to psychotherapy. Sam Wong meets the band of psychiatrists who are looking to reclaim them for medicine again.
In Northern Ireland, more people took their own lives in the 16 years after the Troubles than died during them. Why? Lyra McKee finds out.
Adults with anorexia often have distinctive traits that lock them into a destructive relationship with food. Carrie Arnold discovers how those same traits could help them escape it.
Half of people with Parkinson’s disease experience hallucinations, paranoia and delusions. Mary O’Hara reports on a new hope.
What happens when dissociative identity disorder takes away your sense of being an individual?
Catherine Carver recounts her terrifying journey into postpartum psychosis – and how she found healing in unexpected ways.
Could understanding canine compulsions help find new treatments for people with obsessive–compulsive disorders too? Shayla Love investigates.
Simon Usborne meets the people working to stop suicide for good.
How do you illustrate depression? Martin Rowson describes how he developed his cartoons.
Drop the ‘language of disorder’, argues Peter Kinderman. Instead we should help people on the basis of their individual need.
Twink, Professor Nick Craddock and film-maker Barry J Gibb discuss Last Chance Saloon in a special Q&A session held in Cardiff.
Is voice hearing the result of how our brains model the world around us?
Jemima Hodkinson investigates a seemingly paradoxical experience.
Nearly half of all callers to Samaritans are male, but getting them to open up has proved surprisingly difficult.
A closer look at the data available on male suicide.
Carrie Arnold shares her experience of more than 15 years of anorexia.
Can psychedelic drugs like LSD and MDMA help patients going through mental health therapy? We speak to science journalist Sam Wong about this mind-bending topic.
What have we learned over the past several decades about this illness? We hear from author Carrie Arnold.
In a talk for 5x15, Charles Fernyhough explores what he has learned in over a decade of study on auditory hallucinations - people who hear voices.
Twink was once official photographer to The Jam. See a selection of his photos.
Using sleep deprivation to combat severe depression may seem odd, but for some it’s the only thing that works.
Body-focused repetitive behaviours blight many people’s lives.
This reading list accompanies our story on compulsive hair pulling.
Social worker Beth lost a patient to suicide, but didn’t feel entitled to process it as a personal loss.
One bright idea to treat depression is spreading far and wide.
This reading list accompanies our story on Zimbabwe’s Friendship Bench project.
Catherine Carver and Hannah Bissett reflect on the power of sharing stories in aiding their recovery from postpartum psychosis.
