MENTAL HEALTH AND ME

In 2023, Mosaic Films created a graphic novel adaptation of their BBC series about teen mental health, My Troubled Mind.

“Mental Health and Me”, published by Hachette Children’s, offers an authentic representation of teenage mental health struggles, using each story to touch on different issues in a meaningful, age-appropriate way. Over the course of the seven stories, it explores topics such as addiction, anorexia, anxiety, bullying, depression and self-harm.

The book uses real, verbatim testimony from people who have experienced poor mental health during their teenage years - and  is an empathetic and exploratory look at the stresses and life changes that many young people face, including the transition from primary school to secondary school and some of the difficulties that continue to face teenagers today

Included in the book are specialist advisory notes written by the mental health charity MIND, with information regarding the separate issues raised, and a foreword by the series.

Series Director and Mosaic Film’s CEO, Andy Glynne, talks  about his reasons for creating this series for teens:

“Teenage mental health gets ignored for many reasons, and even when its acknowledged, it's often lumped together with either childhood mental health issues or adult mental health, without realising that some of the issues - and difficulties - are unique to teens. This series- as with all our animated documentary output - used real testimony, from real interviews, with real teengers, experiencing very real difficulties. Our goal was simple: to help them tell their own story in the best way possible and to use animation to try to bring these experiences to life.”