My Family, Mental Illness, and Me

Jon Rees

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Jon Rees is a street photographer and artist who runs therapeutic photography workshops. He speaks with Pamela about his father having bipolar disorder, and his mum's interlinked mental health struggles.

If you would like to support children and young people living with parental mental illness, please donate to Our Time here: https://www.justgiving.com/ourtimeuk. To find out more about Our Time, please visit www.ourtime.org.uk/.

If you are affected by anything you hear in this podcast, there are people you can talk to for support. You can contact your GP, www.samaritans.org or www.childline.org.uk. If you are a young person, you could also talk to a teacher or other trusted adult.