![]() As well as being extremely conscious of her body, Rae Earl was battling extreme anxiety, self-harm and an obsessive-compulsive disorder. The best thing about My Mad Fat Diary is that it doesn’t sugar coat what it’s like to suffer it throws both Rae Earl (Sharon Rooney) and its audience into a set of unpredictable situations that trigger an abundance of responses, showing the true extent of what it’s like to suffer with mental health issues that are typically considered taboo.īased on the real life diary of a 17-year-old teenager leaving an adult psychiatric ward in 1989, My Mad Fat Diary is set in the 90s when mental health in young people was neither widely nor openly discussed in comparison to today’s society. The show is a coming of age series that speaks either a shocking or relatable language. Unfortunately, there aren’t any immediate answers and society continues to have its eyes closed, but E4’s run of My Mad Fat Diary certainly aims to help. ![]() ![]() The world has gone stir crazy with views on mental illness the awful stigma attached to it is something we desperately need to get rid of in order to help those who are suffering. ![]()
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