And I think that's what the book points to, is how we each have to be incredibly mentally strong just to survive. The description of his sectioning is gruelling and like in his own TV documentary (My Psychosis and Me), shows how issues of identity and self can easily lead to mental health breakdowns in our very own if not openly discussed and not dealt with from the very beginning, in primary schools right up to the workplace.

The love and care shown by his friends and above all by his mother protect him and nurture his recovery. Harewood recounts the psychotic episode he suffered in his 20s, what he learned from the experience and how he made the journey to recovery. And speaking to a historian in Barbados, one learns that on every slave that was sold, the monarch took taxes. Harewood gets into Rada after almost cancelling the audition, unaware of its reputation at the time.After appearing in 24 episodes, his character was killed off in a bomb explosion at the end of season 2. It also delves right into the gritty prejudice that so many un-oppressed groups find it uncomfortable to acknowledge and confront, which I think is super important. Now I'm not saying it's a simple equation, America is a very different country and has it's own problems.

As a black, working-class man with British and Caribbean heritage, Harewood often feels he doesn’t have a place. About the Author: David Harewood OBE is an actor and presenter best known for starring roles in Homeland, Supergirl, The Night Manager, Blood Diamond, Criminal Justice and Ten Per Cent. I am now going to find the documentary of David's story, as it was mentioned in the Book, and it sounded like such an important journey, and examines mental illness in Britain, particularly David's journey in acting and becoming ill and hospitalised with psychosis.His excitement and enthusiasm for acting is so wonderfully infectious throughout from the descriptions of watching actors on the Michael Parkinson show to being on stage. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.