Diaries of a Broken Mind

Abby is bipolar, though her mum doesn’t seem very sure what that is. Tilly is anorexic, and is ‘managing’ her own eating programme; she’s not really managing. Bex is agoraphobic and hasn’t been further than the pub over the road in months, and Jess had dissociative identity disorder, which means she has five distinct personalities, one of them a short male American movie actor.

Nothing in this doc is predictable, except the scratchy 8-bit captions and an invasive and over-literal soundtrack of chart R&B. Its coup is allowing young people with mental health conditions to document the reality of their lives themselves: they come across as depressing, heartwarming, annoying and hilarious. Exactly like any 18-year-old. Most illuminating is their answer to the question ‘Would you not have your condition if you could?’ Excellent stuff – but ditch Kanye.