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Stephen Fry explores manic depression, a mental illness which affects up to four million people in the UK. He reveals in detail how this illness overwhelmed him in the 1990s.
Stephen Fry explores the world of manic depression, a mental illness which affects up to four million people in the UK, including himself.
In the second of two programmes, Stephen reveals in detail for the first time how this illness overwhelmed him in the 1990s and caused him to attempt suicide, and also why he disappeared from a West End play. Since then, he has had to figure out ways of living with it.
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Wed 19 May 2010
19:30
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