This chocolate potato cake of a show is presented by Stacey Dooley. I love her, but – to throw another ingredient into the mix – she is something of a Marmite figure for viewers, although those who object to her often seem to do so on the grounds that she has a Luton accent and – uh – no PhD in … television presenting?

I've been fortunate enough to meet many remarkable people over the last decade of making documentaries - sometimes in incredibly hostile environments, where they ' ve been really up against it - and I ' ve seen the devastating effect that poverty, trauma, violence, abuse, stigma, stress, prejudice and discrimination can have on people ' s mental health. It has always been the common thread.

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If you're looking for a way to stay up to date with the latest breaking news from around Bedfordshire, the BedfordshireLive newsletter is a good place to start. Thank you so much to NetGalley, BBC Books and Penguin Random House UK, Ebury Publishing for the opportunity to read this book. Are you really OK? I don’t think there’d be too many people who could answer that question with a resounding yes after living through what the 2020’s have given us so far. Now, more than ever, we need to do whatever we can to look after our mental health. I liked the way the book was structured, chapters were separated by the type of mental health condition and was very easy to read

Stacey will share the stories of young people in the UK that have been affected by mental health issues to shine a light on the mental health frontline and give a voice to young people who are living with conditions across the spectrum.

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In 2011, BBC Three aired Tourism and the Truth: Stacey Dooley Investigates. Over two episodes, Dooley investigated how tourism in Thailand and Kenya affects employees there, in particular with regard to wages, corruption and environmental changes. [13] Dooley also presented the CBBC series Show Me What You're Made Of. Stacey Dooley (2023). Are You Really OK?: Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency. BBC Books. ISBN 978-1785947032. None of us get through life unscathed. Sean, a psychiatrist Stacey spoke to, is helping to destigmatise mental illness. No one is immune to mental health issues, Sean says. Whenever someone starts talking politics my brain goes into standby mode so I was really surprised that Stacey could explain political issues to me, including what Obama stood for versus Trump, and I not only heard her but I understood what she was saying. Don’t get me wrong; I’ll never understand American politics. However Stacey explained policies and the way people are affected by them in such a down to earth way that I knew what she was talking about and if she’d done nothing else in this book, she’d deserve a medal for that alone!