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Performer and Mental Health Campaigner - Ruby Wax

Long experience of depression took comedian Ruby Wax into neuroscience and psychotherapy. Mental illness raises difficult questions, where did she find answers?

Mental illness is the invisible scourge of modern life, and it comes with a stigma. To admit to depression, or another illness of the mind, has been to risk being labelled as weak, self-indulgent or mad. Ruby Wax wants to change that. She made her name as a comedian and TV entertainer; long experience of depression eventually took her into neuroscience and psychotherapy. Mental illness raises difficult questions, where did she find answers?

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23 minutes

Last on

Fri 22 Nov 2013 20:06GMT

Broadcasts

  • Fri 22 Nov 2013 09:06GMT
  • Fri 22 Nov 2013 20:06GMT

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