New BBC Three Season Covers Teenage Mental Health

BBC Three is launching a new season films covering the range of mental health issues affecting young people in Britain today.

The "It's A Mad World" season launches tonight at 9pm with the screening of new documentary series Don’t Call Me Crazy which follows events at the former McGuinness Unit in Manchester.

Since filming the unit has been replaced by a new facility but it was one of the largest teenage mental health inpatient units in the country and a place of last resort for many adolescents with eating disorders or psychosis, who self-harm or are suicidal.

The new series follows a year in the lives of inpatients at the former teenage mental health unit - which has now been replaced by the new £10m Junction 17 centre - as they work this staff to try and turn their lives around.

More than 500,000 young people across the UK are being treated for some kind of mental illness, and over 3,500 teenagers passed through inpatient units like this last year.

For further information about the shoute please visit the Don’t Call Me Crazy web page on the BBC Three website.