Are You Really OK?: Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency

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I've been fortunate enough to meet many remarkable people over the last decade of making documentaries - sometimes in incredibly hostile environments, where they ' ve been really up against it - and I ' ve seen the devastating effect that poverty, trauma, violence, abuse, stigma, stress, prejudice and discrimination can have on people ' s mental health. It has always been the common thread. If you haven’t seen the documentaries then this book will be totally new to you and I can imagine an absolute eye opener. This girl is fearless, the experiences that she has put to paper beats the imagination.

BBC Factual announces Stacey Dooley: Ready for War? a one-off documentary for BBC Three and iPlayer". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre . Retrieved 18 March 2023. Stacey Dooley has long been one of my on screen heroes. Her documentaries are hard hitting, honest and cause an impact upon watching them. Of course I had to read her book! Bryant, Tom; Jefferies, Mark (15 December 2018). "Stacey Dooley's mum put photo of ecstasy victim Leah Betts on fridge to warn Strictly winner off drugs". Daily Mirror. In 2018, the programme Stacey Dooley: Face to Face with ISIS received the Popular Features Award at the One World Media Awards. [41] Filmography [ edit ] Television [ edit ] Year

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BBC Three's Stacey Dooley held by Japanese police". BBC. 26 February 2017 . Retrieved 26 February 2017. In 2011, BBC Three aired Tourism and the Truth: Stacey Dooley Investigates. Over two episodes, Dooley investigated how tourism in Thailand and Kenya affects employees there, in particular with regard to wages, corruption and environmental changes. [13] Dooley also presented the CBBC series Show Me What You're Made Of. Stacey Dooley is one of Britain's most loved documentary presenters. Fashion conscious Stacey's life took an unexpected turn when she travelled to India in 2007 for the BBC3 series Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts to live and work alongside the people in the Indian fashion industry making clothes for the UK High Street. a b Hattenstone, Simon (29 July 2019). "Stacey Dooley: 'Some people don't understand why I'm on TV. But I deserve to be there' ". The Guardian. The set up is this: four people claim they own a house – a converted barn in Ashford, Kent, in this opening episode. They show us, and a panel of judges who sit in a room watching the feeds, round “their” home. The judges must decide which one is telling the truth.

These brand-new live shows have completely fresh content, never seen before. I'll be sharing behind the scenes stories and clips from some of my more recent documentaries, as well as exploring Britain's mental health crisis based on the findings of my latest book, Are You Really OK? Stacey Dooley and Joe Sugg take One Step Beyond the ballroom as they join Madness at this year's New Year's Eve celebrations on BBC One". BBC Media Centre. 18 December 2018 . Retrieved 21 December 2018. In August 2019, Dooley caused controversy for calling a Muslim prayer gesture 'an IS salute' in a Panorama documentary on IS brides. A BBC spokesperson confirmed that this clip had been removed from the documentary, while the teaser trailer had been edited. [39] Honours and awards [ edit ] She has also admitted that she used to shoplift and went out with a drug dealer. She told the Mirror: "A boy I went about with was heavily involved with dealing coke. I remember going into his room one day and there were scales out and he was bagging it up.” Upon her return to the UK, Stacey began campaigning against child labour, organising events to raise money for charities and even appearing on BBC2's Newsnight to raise awareness, and has since embarked on a series of investigations to become one of BBC3's most celebrated presenters.I am absolutely obsessed with Stacey Dooley's documentaries and have followed her work for quite a few years... so when I heard she was releasing a book I was ecstatic ! I am a big fan of Stacey Dooley and have watched many of her documentaries on BBC3. I think she has a real talent at creating a comfortable environment for people to talk about themselves. She's a great active listener and isn't afraid to ask important questions.

Stacey Dooley has become a household after the success of her documentary series, as the host of a number of BBC shows, and as the winner of 2018's Strictly Come Dancing. None of us get through life unscathed. Sean, a psychiatrist Stacey spoke to, is helping to destigmatise mental illness. No one is immune to mental health issues, Sean says. ‘But if enough wrong things happen that exceed someone’s ability to cope, no matter how privileged they are, they will get ill’ While that knowledge is somewhat terrifying, it’s also comforting because it removes blame from the person with the illness. If you're looking for a way to stay up to date with the latest breaking news from around Bedfordshire, the BedfordshireLive newsletter is a good place to start.In 2016, Dooley presented Stacey Dooley in Cologne: The Blame Game, about the 2015 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany, which aired on 29 January. She also presented Stacey Dooley: Hate and Pride in Orlando where she travelled to Orlando, Florida in the aftermath of the Pulse Bar shootings. On 30 July, Dooley appeared on the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind where her specialist subject was the television series Girls. While that knowledge is somewhat terrifying, it’s also comforting because it removes blame from the person with the illness. Johnson, Jamie (11 June 2019). "Comic Relief will stop sending celebrities abroad in wake of 'white saviour' racism row, Richard Curtis tells MPs". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 12 June 2019. [ verification needed]

Dooley was criticised in January 2019 for falsely portraying a Turkish woman as a Syrian sex worker living in Istanbul in her series Sex in Strange Places. The misrepresentation led to the Turkey episode of the documentary being removed from BBC iPlayer. [33] What I love about Stacey’s work with social issues women face around the world is that she gives you information about emotionally loaded topics in a thoughtful and respectful way. You don’t just get to hear her opinion; you learn about people whose lives that issue directly effects as a victim, their family and friends, along with any officials in the area or perpetrators that are willing to be interviewed. Whenever someone starts talking politics my brain goes into standby mode so I was really surprised that Stacey could explain political issues to me, including what Obama stood for versus Trump, and I not only heard her but I understood what she was saying. Don’t get me wrong; I’ll never understand American politics. However Stacey explained policies and the way people are affected by them in such a down to earth way that I knew what she was talking about and if she’d done nothing else in this book, she’d deserve a medal for that alone!

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Stacey will share the stories of young people in the UK that have been affected by mental health issues to shine a light on the mental health frontline and give a voice to young people who are living with conditions across the spectrum. I liked the way the book was structured, chapters were separated by the type of mental health condition and was very easy to read Thank you so much to NetGalley, BBC Books and Penguin Random House UK, Ebury Publishing for the opportunity to read this book.