Stephen Fry: The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive DVDRip
English | 120 Min | 720x404 | MPEG4 | 25fps 1084kbps | MP3 128kbps | 930MB
Genre: Documentary

Motivated by his own personal battle, Stephen Fry goes on an emotional but entertaining journey - an A to Z of manic depression - where he chats to stars in Hollywood and Britain such as Carrie Fisher, Richard Dreyfuss and Rick Stein, as well as ordinary people who juggle this illness with their working lives; and he visits the surgeries of psychiatrists and the labs of researchers who are trying to help control the condition.

In candid interviews, we hear tales of mood swings and extremes of behaviour that can leave a sufferer living like Jekyll and Hyde; with reckless aggression, crazy xxx, wild decisions, and criminal impulses all thrown in. And we will hear about the lows that make you wonder how they survive.

And why does the condition affect so many creative people? Does the condition fuel creativity? Or is it the by-product of the stress of leading a creative life? And when so much manic-depressive behaviour is manifested in drug and alcohol abuse, we have to ask - which comes first? Does the addiction feed the highs and lows, or does the mental condition feed the addiction?

As Fry himself says, "This won't be doctors in white coats examining the lab rats. It will be the lab rat talking to other lab rats, bringing a fresh audience to a difficult subject that deserves to be better understood".

Episode 1 looks at how manic depression affects different people.
Episode 2 focuses on the various treatments available for manic depression.