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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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20:06GMT
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