Ground-breaking and honest real-life stories that speak to you about your life, your world, and your issues.
Reece Parkinson gets in-depth each week with documentaries made to challenge your thinking.
Ground-breaking and honest real-life stories that speak to you about your life, your world, and your issues.
Reece Parkinson gets in-depth each week with documentaries made to challenge your thinking.
Two years ago Newsbeat followed the life of Mat who’d had anxiety and panic attacks since he was a teenager. It was part of BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra’s mental health season called My Mind and Me. Mat revealed that during his darkest times he experienced panic attacks almost every day and regularly imagined taking his own life. He fell into a spiral of drinking alcohol to deal with it and found it hard to stop. Now, we catch up with Mat to see how he is.
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