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Real-life stories from young people about mental health struggles

It began as a social media video by a group of young people; now it's set to be one of the first crowd-funded projects ever to be to be aired on RTÉ.

My Other Life is the story of a group of friends who discovered, through initially sharing stories on the internet, that they had much more in common than they ever thought.

First-time director Edvinas Maciulevicius has captured a series of powerful, real-life stories from young people in their early 20s, about their own mental health struggles.

They ask: what can Irish society do to better understand a world in which depression, anxiety and mental health issues have become far too prevalent?

Powerful, unique and important: this is one to watch. (Wednesday 10th October, 10.30pm, RTÉ2)

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