Tuesday 18 November 2008

Tues 9pm BBC2 Horizon

Dear bcc


This is the second and final part of a programme about the thin line between normality and mental illness. It is educational if you’ve no experience of this.



I’ve not watched reality TV programmes since the Generation Game, a very long time ago! This one has five sane people together with five people with problems. The panel of three experts in psychiatric medicine try and decide who has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Anorexia, Schizophrenia, or is one of the five without a difficulty.



In part one, the panel identified the OCD person, which wasn’t difficult. They also had to pick one person who they were convinced had no psychiatric problems at all. They picked Yasmin who then said they were wrong as she had an illness.



Thus there are nine people left in the final part on Tuesday, five of whom are considered to be without a personality disorder. As I said it is all very educational and I felt more informed from watching the first programme.

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