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Browse our catalogue of films known as Animated Minds. These seven series cover a wide-range of topics around mental health. From school-children through to pregnancy and adulthood, these diverse testimonies all serve to raise awareness for mental-health issues. 

 
 
 
 
 
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My Troubled Mind

My Troubled Mind is a 6 part series for BBC Teach. Through real testimony, this series explores teenage mental health. It has acted as a springboard for discussions on mental ill-health in PSHE lessons in secondary schools - a topic that is still widely misunderstood and unrecognised.

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I Can’t Go to School Today

This series uses personal testimony and animation to give a voice to children who suffer from health issues or disease early on in life. Given the amount of children who live with illness, and who are often absent from school, this series aims to bring a light to the difficulties these individuals have experienced.

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When I Worry About Things

Real life stories of children managing difficult feelings, When I Worry About Things is a series of animated documentaries produced for the BBC that use personal testimony to explore mental health issues from the perspective of children.

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Stories of Postnatal Depression

A series of 5 films highlighting personal stories of perinatal mental health issues. Animation is combined with personal testimony to give honesty and power to the narratives of 5 parents who have endured the trauma, fear and anxiety of mental distress before ultimately finding a way through.

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Seeking Refuge

Seeking Refuge is a multi-award winning and BAFTA-winning series of animated documentaries for the BBC exploring the experiences of young refugees and asylum seekers who are living in the UK. Using the testimonies of five young people, we worked with animators to tell their story visually.

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Our Traumatic Wars

Using animation and personal testimony, these two films focus on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as experienced by War Veterans, precipitated by an experience, or set of experiences, in armed conflicts in the UK’s recent history.

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Original Animated Minds

The first four films, made in 2003, focus on adults’ experiences of bipolar disorder, psychosis, panic attacks, and obsessive compulsive disorder. In 2008 four more films were produced. These focus on young people and explore their experiences of obsessive compulsive disorder, deliberate self-harm, eating disorders, and the social distress experienced by those affected by Asperger’s syndrome.

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