He has my complete and upper most respect. Because peoples actions speak a lot louder than words. I didn't actually think people like this existed. I know what I have been through with mental health, and what I'm still going through, so I can work out where I'll be in another 12 years. He really looks like he's on top of this situation, and it sounds like he is using his status to help others, for the good of you and I. He is a tribute to the mental health community! I will support him
I'm completely flabberghasted! I knew nothing about Adam Ant up until 1 hour ago. Firstly I thought I'd listen to the Jools Holland 2012 set, which was a suggested video. That's music! Bloody good music at that! I will buy it. Then I find out he has suffered mental health problems. Then I saw this! This man is very special and deserves a lot of respect. Right now I can't think of anything else that I would like to do more than sit and have a beer and chat with Adam Ant.
Have a wee listen to his music videos for Stand and Deliver, as well as Prince Charming. A very good watch. Videos are quite humorous and a real testament to the man. He is quite obviously a real nice guy and you can see it in his music videos that he obviously doesn't really take himself too seriously and can have a good laugh at himself. I also have a MH condition as back in 2017 I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome which is a form of Autism.
He is completely cogent and well reasoned He is an excellent advocate for reform in the mental health system. Read the excellent book he wrote "Stand and Deliver" you would be impressed just how articulate he is. Adam Ant is to be commended for his courage, bravery and sheer guts in how he faced being bipolar. The UK trash tabloids wrote HORRIBLE sadistic cruel things about him - he is doing a lot to educate the public & eliminate the stigma and discrimation & ignorance about mental illness
just a great character and all around interesting gent of rock. did his homework and paid his dues. the late 80s/90s were cruel to his career but he took the time off and it's perfect timing. the dandy highwayman returns indeed.
A sibling has mental illness. For ANY mental illness, is SLEEPING. And he is also right that every person is different and meds effect every different and doesn't help every one
Exactly my post natal depression kicked in after weeks of only having a couple of hours sleep a day if I was lucky, was in a cohersive relationship also at the time, I kept it a secret, one I was worried about having my child Taken away and second I knew pills were not the answer, well not for me anyway, I started to get full nights sleep, ditched the controlling, lieing cheating prick and I got rid of the depression over time but now suffer with anxiety, which I have control of most of the time, left over ptsd most likely, but I know my triggers and know what to do to and without intervention, some aren't so lucky and need the extra support but it's just not there
I was a fan as a child, love him more now I'm almost 50 and struggled for 40 years with poor mental health. What an amazing man with a beautiful soul. Hope he finds happiness, health and peace ❤
Eight years on & the mental health care system is still poor! Unfortunately, I witnessed for myself last year, patients being treated appallingly in hospital by NHS trained staff...it was awful.
In my experience, the staff were great, but I don't agree with locking patients up on such a small ward with just a small concrete patio; the ill-equipped art room and TV room were the only things to occupy patients. It shouldn't feel so clinical either, it should be homely with bean-bags and things. My main complaint is the over-use of powerful anti-psychotics, which are administered against one's will, and cause terrible side effects, which last for months after the drugs have been stopped! The mental health budget should be much bigger.
I too became embroiled in the mental health system when I experienced psychotic episodes leading to full blown schizophrenia and later depression. The drugs were horrible and they also had side effects that felt disgusting. They worked in a way but I am only now reconnecting with parts of my psyche that were shut down by the experience. Although I'm grateful for the help I did receive we are still in the dark ages when it comes down to mental wellbeing. Thanks Adam for such intelligent insight.
Love Adam Ant ♥️!!!!! His outlook on Mental Health issues wilI have a great impact on easing the stigma that some people have about it. I have some things going on too. I am lucky that I have a wonderful support system.Don't worry about those of us who take meds. Worry about those who don't take them.. LadyCass Rinn
I am going thru a deep depression myself right now. I almost can't function. After loving Adam for 40 years and it just dawned on me to listen to this for myself. I'll never forget him saying that mental health is like a "fist through the skull". It really IS. What help is there, though?? Such a terrible disorder. 👊👊👊
Charming intelligent man- I'd love to see an exhibition of his art! And, he is so right- mental health issues are just shoved under the carpet and need more attention and better understanding!
What an amazing human being! I have an immense respect for him. I understand what it’s like, and he puts it all so eloquently and so down to earth at the same time. May life treat him well!
Just discovering this wonderful, beautiful soul. Highly intelligent, sentitive and authentic and a lot more together than those fake people who pretend to be.
Adam ant is doing a tremendous service talking about mental health in public. The more people we have doing this the better. He is also right to emphasize the individuality of his experience and the complexity of all the factors involved. We need more celebrities and notable figures talking about their mental health and more of the general public and psychiatrists and psychologists and therapists listening to them. One thing I think Adam ant understandably found very difficult (and it is mentioned in some of his songs) was being hounded by the tabloid press. If someone is a successful and very talented musician then that is wonderful but it does NOT mean anyone owns them. And certainly not the tabloid press. Their private life and especially their marital and sexual life (unless they are indulging in violent or otherwise abusive behaviour) is strictly no-one else's business but their own. This is also true for the great Paul Mc Cartney and the ending of his second marriage. The paparazzi and newspaper barons need to spend some time (but not eternity) being chased by camera people and written about in red top newspapers after they die to see how they like it. They should then have to meet Adam Ant and Paul Mc Carntney again. If they have any ounce of decency in them they will apologise. People sometimes commit suicide because of what papers like the sun write about them so no - it isn't a bit of harmless fun.
I believe that Adam wrote the lyrics for his first album 'Dirk Wears White Sox" whilst in a mental institution (something I have experienced at least twice), and the song "Nine Plan Failed" deals with mental illness in the third person, dealing with an ex soldier. What annoys me the most about mental illness is the way the poor, like my partner's brother, can be locked away for 30 years as there is no family support to try to get them out and they end up institutionalised chemical zombies.
I love him before. I still love him. BUT AFTER THIS INTERVIEW CHANGE MY LAST NAME 'CUS I AM IN LOVE!!! Bless him for going out and talking about this! As to many people hide it. The bi-polar symptoms are different by gender and doctors in the UK vs The USA give it different symptoms. In the USA if you have they pill you up to being a zombie! It's all about finding a good doctor and knowing your rights. I agree with Adam and want to hug him silly now!
@Champion Tonto the Wonder Horse no..just a mini stroke frontal lobe...the fun disappear....no clot i am bipolar so they say. Cant take noises very little
thank you so much for talking about this. its very brave. im pretty sure my mother had an undiagnosed mental illness, my parents had plenty of money, that was actually a handicap to my siblings and i having any kind of help (we just kept moving) and our relatives were absolutely sure we must have been exaggerating. until they broke a few state laws and they were pretty brazen about it.thank you, also, for getting help and wanting to do better once you had children. you, your band, were pretty much my saving grace when i was a very unhappy teen being raised by crazy people who pretty much did whatever they wanted, with almost no repercusion. other than a little ptsd, im pretty much ok.in no small part, thanks to you.
The real problem for most of us as he illustrates when he says “Nobody told me to take a break”. Because most of us cannot afford to take a break. Especially damaging if we are working with hostile/toxic people. We end up becoming that poor stray cat who goes from town to town hissing at everyone… solely for the absence of warmth and understanding. I respect his candor immensely. ❤️🇬🇧
I saw the documentary on Adam, The Madness of Prince Charming on here and that is where I first saw that he had mental health issues. I have mental health issues in my own family, my mum, myself, my dad too, except with him, it was depression, my mum was several mental breakdowns. I am a writer and mental health is something that's always scared me. Good for Adam for keeping up awareness of this stigma surrounding mental health issues. Always liked and admired him, especially after that documentary, even more so now. Mental health problems can affect anyone, doesn't matter who you are. I believe, as with myself, the thing that scares people most about it is that it is so unpredictable and there is no cure. Mental health problems can be depression, which affects millions and they're afraid to say or as extreme as screaming down the street. (My mum). Well done indeed, Adam. Hopefully those who suffer it, will start to feel less alone.
I tell you the truth, many teenagers who are bipolar and don't know it, come age 17 will suddenly start having suicidal thoughts, be in a desperate hurry to die... feel self hate, no value and worthless, even thou there is no reason for them to feel this way at all and everything in there life is pretty ok and great... what is causing this is the actual bipolar disorder, taking control of the steering wheel of the mind and the young person having no clue to what the hell is happening with them. I know this because at age 16 and younger i was perfectly happy and full of energy ( But in constant High Mania, Bipolar Hyper ),,, but when i turned 17..... depression hit me like a FIST IN MY JAW and it just got rougher by the day. I tell you the truth, it was only till around age 39 did I finally realise what was going on when ADAM ANT started speaking up about this sickness Bipolar that I started to understand i was sick, and it was not me that was depressed or suicidal, it was the Bipolar disorder disease telling me i was, when in fact i was not. So now I know who and what my enemy is, i now can fight back.... When the illness tells me negative crap, I know its Bipolar putting its fist in my skull and ignore it...
Tell it how it is Adam. You went up three notches in my book when you did a radio show about 4 decades back and played a Hank Williams tune. Sat near you and a pretty lady in a restaurant just off Regent's Park Rd back in the 80's. And yup, Nick Kent was the best-dressed man in town.
they also still administer ECT (Electro Chocks , which is like hitting 1 particular needle in a haystack of needles) there are psychiatrists in the US (Dallas area) lobying to get a law signed that will allow ECT on kids younger than 10 (this in those cases where the medications-used give the person to much ill-side-effects) they can than Chock him with Electro Chocks - now if he behaves, they will leave him alone if not .....
Please advise !!! ..... (and thank you for the broardcast) !!! ... At 4.36 mins the singer (Adam Ant) ... claims that :- . Any "third party" (unbeknown) can make an allegation and "report" the individual to the "Next of Kin" . The "Next of Kin" then MUST convey that said allegation to a Doctor or "GP" level !!! . And on the authorisation of the doctor ....(leading from the "third party") .... the individual (victim) .... can have his/her civil liberties taken at a "dawn raid" !!! ... ... Many Thanks for the advice ..... BTW ..... wow you made some great music !!!!.... BRILLIANT !!!
A really informative interview,and he's spot on!We're now in 2017,and l must say,the mental health service is sadly lacking,to say the least.Having been in hospital in the past,l have to say the quality of the staff is on the whole substandard compared to say,your normal A&E hospital. Also,there was condesention and bullying.A real treat indeed.....Sigh..👎👎
Adam ant good on him speaking out for mental health l know what it like l have bipolar disorder for 18 year's ago now l had nervous break down l stay in mental hospital for three weeks it was worse time of my life l said l would never go back in mental hospital and so far l been alright l on low dose of med l have good days and bad day.
He alluded to how being a "Rock Star" actively encourages the person to be off kilter. Being around Malcom MacClaren prolly didnt help. I,m glad he has pulled thru and that he`s talking about it. Walk a mile in another man's shoes ..eh?
Tell them Adam! You are absolutely right!!! Any one can be rail roaded in that instance. to obtain your wealth, your fortune and especially if they can take advantage of an older relative who is now at risk of being way laid by some person with bad intent. Can you imagine that? Now they've got a hold of your riches and you in a ward or dead.
This is a difficult matter. I have been there as well. I have tried to help friends during their crisis. The more we all know and understand the better we will get at helping people in crisis. Thank you Adam.
Its hard to get sectioned.Bi Polar disorder can make life dangerous to the sufferer & others.It takes 3 doctors to section you.Most people dont like being sectioned & will constantly try & justify why the y SHOULDnt have been sectioned.Its a minefield for the average person to understand.More scary is the fact they can force treatments on you,treatments with tablets/injections that ultimately make you ILL causing all sorts of problems & ultimately ruin your physical health too.
Its every where. Here, in America, people with mental health issues/ illness are medicated and nothing is truly done to get to the root of the problems or genuinely help them. I understand that every case is different and sometimes the medications are the best course of action. But we need to do better for our people who are struggling.
I think the most important lesson learned here is to never say to anyone in public to be normal. Normal is just taking on the least common mannerism and being nothing out of the box. If normality was killed, if people just tried to love one another for whoever they are, love in it self could be the healing. If more people were like Adam telling the truth about humanity between human beings and how hard it is to live as a "normal" when nothing is "normal" in the first place!
I always think I can't love him anymore and then he goes and proves me wrong. I actually saw him live once in a camp festival when I was about six. I only remember snapshots of it but I just remember being totally transfixed.
Hope I don’t offend but just wanted to say you might want to edit ‘anymore’ to ‘any more’ because they have two very vastly different meanings and I’m sure you meant the latter. Also I couldn’t agree more. What’s funny is I’ve known some of his music since my childhood yet it wasn’t until about a month ago I realized I did! I then dove headfirst into his catalog and became an instant fan. Watching these interviews has made me realize he is one of the best people to ever exist and I cannot get enough of his presence and wisdom, truly. Such a remarkable human being, perfect if you ask me, mental illness and all as it just makes him who he is.
it's not just uk its America in general.look at the people that claim they are manic depressive or bipolar simply for attention and what happens they are taking time , money and court appointed time from people who are really sick that's the worse part . my cousin for yrs was in and out of rehabs because they thought the drugs he had used were the issue ( he did some very dark things while having a bipolar episode) couple yrs ago they finally found out he's bipolar ...he takes medication and watches or listens to things that will keep him calm ......
good on Adam Ant for speaking out... unfortunately the mental health system is very similar to the 1 here in Australia.. Human rights are a major problem with mental heath systems across the world... Places like UK and Australia should be leading the World instead where not much better off than some 3rd world countries.
@ryko26 Lol, I was just thinking that was one of if not the most eloquent discussions/accounts I have ever heard come out of a celebrities mouth in my entire life. I've found that people without some degree of hypomania think hypomanic people sound mad where as personally (having hypomania-BP2) I don't really find any other conversations in the least bit stimulating. I think we tend to be a bit more free-form and emotionally focused in our conversational style. Diff style of comm. is all.
You can be placed on a sec 136 via the police HOWEVER there is only ONE 136 suite in each town and I suspect that’s not the case in most towns. I am a mental health nurse and we are at breaking point, we need more facilities not shutting more down! We need to train more nurses and we need to start education on this in junior school, that and first aid! Rant over because I love my job 💕
Good on ya Stuart, same issue down here in Oz. Listened to your music since 1981. Now, I'm listening all ears, your making too much sense here. The branding of people with mental health issues is the last great bastion of discrimination. It's gotta stop, and I mean now... Oh! By the way, Johnny Depp just called, he said he's coming back as you you in the next life!!!
I cut off my earlobes because of nothing ended up in the hospital seven stitches in each ear near my arteries I could of died. Two weeks I was gone from my home mental illness is very serious 🙏
I feel very strongly aboute the way society treats mental health I wonder if Adam even knows this interview is on utube and people will comment I feel thats a lot to answer for ppl threatening peoples loved ones people judging especially none stars who Adam calls working class like his parents I bet his parents are lovely people but there is a very secular none compassionate thread of bad people who have mental health it's very diverse you can be working class and think your a rockstar these days what defines a rockstar anyway ppl in society and crummby rotton judgemental notice the word judgemental and where does the word jusgement come from Ask yourself there are too many I think I'm famous normal people trust me iv loved ones who are so famous that they will say who's that why would I want his/ her autograph famedome has changed stardome has changed not one person who ever walked this earth don't have an ego and a mental health capasity Depression it runs through every living person and media has a lot to answer for and who is the actual Master of this realm noone wants to believe the king gave him domain for a period but it will cease the plan is bigger
Yiremik. Yes i agree with you. Also its a pitty that some mentle ill people dont realise that shooting dead young school children or shooting people in plymouth is definitely not the answer. This man did not do anything like that , he may have broken the law throwing a car alternator in a pub window but he didnt shoot & kill anyone.
Well hold on my brother has bipolar and he's been sectioned loads of times when he's having an episode one of his things is driving about at ridiculous speeds in his powerful car drunk His doctor was collecting his daughter from a local school and my brother passed going about 100mph with the top down music blaring Are you saying he shouldn't be sectioned? In this instance he was sectioned later that day after he arrived at my parents home and threw my 80 year old father on the floor
Its hard to exist in this world, keeping your wits about you when people question your sanity because you dont fit in with the cyborgs, its happened to me, and I had to try to do things to try and "normalise" myself.
I don't really know if it's the government who are to blame or the decision makers at the top of the NHS or simply the British psyche and general attitude towards mental health issues is the biggest stumbling block towards greater awareness and education about Mental Health. One of the things I am sure about is that it would be getting a much higher priority under Labour than it ever would under a Conservative government in the UK. But the main part of the issue is the lack of funding from the NHS. Year in, Year out the government gives the NHS whatever it's annual budget is. Now, about a quarter of everything the National Health Service does is related in some way or other to Mental Health. A Quarter put another way is obviously about 25-30%, ok? The percentage of the NHS annual budget that the Mental Health services receive each year is approximately 10%. You don't really have to be Einstein to see that the those at the top don't really give a Castlemaine XXXX about anyone who has a MH issue or they would be prepared to do something to help address this horrific imbalance. But of course, they won't and you can more than likely bet your bottom dollar that they have no real intentions or genuine interest in doing anything remotely positive about it.
My x-husband has bi-polar disorder. We were married for 20+ years. It was a nightmare for the whole family. When we finally figured out what it was, it was like a lightbulb went on, he got on medicine and the whole world changed for him and us. The tricky thing about bi-polar disorder is that the sufferer tends to stop taking the medicine because his brain feels “fine” and he doesn’t need it. Then the mania comes on, which in the beginning of it - THEY LOVE THE FEELING OF- and off we go into another 6-month nightmare. Delusions, grandiose behavior, then depression, suicide, remorse over all the damage you caused while manic....... repeat repeat repeat. It horrible.
I love Adam and I don't know how England deals with mental illness, but America has a real problem and I wish we had the right to put people away for longer than three days until we can restore their health. It's criminal how we care for the mentally ill in this country.
+xlaurenstephens deemed unfit to be in public due to being mentally unstable, therefor put into a 'section of society', that section being, for want of a better term 'locked up in a mental institution'......
it means in the UK that if a doctor decides you are in a negative mental state and having a break down...they will lock you up in a mental hospital ..and you have no say
Hi, Kingdom X... yep, what anon amous wrote... comparable in the U.S. at best to a 302, except with even less rights. At least for a 302, the individual has to have expressed a desire to end either their own or another person's life, and whoever calls it in has to have direct knowledge of their plan. It's actually a good thing because it's protective. A sectioning in the UK, though, wow, what on earth. Actually, it seems more like this: in the U.S., if two people (or more) get a stick in their rear they can call the police and accuse someone of committing a crime (that they didn't commit). The person being accused will be thrown in jail - no questions asked - until an appointed court date (yeah, so much for "innocent until proven guilty;" that's b.s. here) simply because there were two or more accusers. It's total crap. (Happened to me, only by the grace of God the cop DID believe me and he didn't arrest me - plus I had evidence that I wasn't where I was accused of being at the time. I thank God for that, too, believe me.) Adam's had a crap deal with some of his family, it seems. Way to rise above. Wish I could meet him. I actually saw him in concert this past week (WOW). I stood there amazed at his energy - especially having come through what he has. Such a blessing - had a smile on my face almost the whole time. God bless him lots I hope, really.
Wow.... I'm an American....and I know our mental health system is fucked up....for most of the so called 'normal' reasons: Lack of Funding, Prejudice, Stereotyping.......over/or under medicating....and more... But, this very video is my first 'experience' with the "English" mental health system and it sounds like the system/and/or other people can go behind your back and have you 'institutionalized"........wow..... Both countries, and the world in general really need to be more 'empathetic' and open to mental health....No matter how 'normal' one seems everyone is fucked up in some way......
He has my complete and upper most respect. Because peoples actions speak a lot louder than words. I didn't actually think people like this existed. I know what I have been through with mental health, and what I'm still going through, so I can work out where I'll be in another 12 years. He really looks like he's on top of this situation, and it sounds like he is using his status to help others, for the good of you and I. He is a tribute to the mental health community! I will support him
I could not agree more!
I agree
He seems like a amazing person
And he’s an amazing Musician
We need more people like him in the world
He is so smart and down to earth - such a genuine man..... a brilliant artist.
I'm completely flabberghasted! I knew nothing about Adam Ant up until 1 hour ago. Firstly I thought I'd listen to the Jools Holland 2012 set, which was a suggested video. That's music! Bloody good music at that! I will buy it. Then I find out he has suffered mental health problems. Then I saw this! This man is very special and deserves a lot of respect. Right now I can't think of anything else that I would like to do more than sit and have a beer and chat with Adam Ant.
Have a wee listen to his music videos for Stand and Deliver, as well as Prince Charming.
A very good watch.
Videos are quite humorous and a real testament to the man. He is quite obviously a real nice guy and you can see it in his music videos that he obviously doesn't really take himself too seriously and can have a good laugh at himself.
I also have a MH condition as back in 2017 I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome which is a form of Autism.
I love this man. He is so smart, so sensitive, so brave. May he continue to be himself.
He is completely cogent and well reasoned He is an excellent advocate for reform in the mental health system. Read the excellent book he wrote "Stand and Deliver" you would be impressed just how articulate he is. Adam Ant is to be commended for his courage, bravery and sheer guts in how he faced being bipolar. The UK trash tabloids wrote HORRIBLE sadistic cruel things about him - he is doing a lot to educate the public & eliminate the stigma and discrimation & ignorance about mental illness
The UK press are mentally deranged sycophantic spiteful narcissists who are the real head case's...
Beautiful hearted guy.I get recurrent depression & self-medicate with substance abuse.He speaks so much compassionate truth.Bless him.
just a great character and all around interesting gent of rock. did his homework and paid his dues. the late 80s/90s were cruel to his career but he took the time off and it's perfect timing. the dandy highwayman returns indeed.
Adam's just a lovely human being
Adam Ant pointed out the key issue: 'you are not sleeping', sleep is the key, sleep deprivation is the doorway...
I agree....
A sibling has mental illness. For ANY mental illness, is SLEEPING. And he is also right that every person is different and meds effect every different and doesn't help every one
One billion percent!!!!
Exactly my post natal depression kicked in after weeks of only having a couple of hours sleep a day if I was lucky, was in a cohersive relationship also at the time, I kept it a secret, one I was worried about having my child Taken away and second I knew pills were not the answer, well not for me anyway, I started to get full nights sleep, ditched the controlling, lieing cheating prick and I got rid of the depression over time but now suffer with anxiety, which I have control of most of the time, left over ptsd most likely, but I know my triggers and know what to do to and without intervention, some aren't so lucky and need the extra support but it's just not there
I have to used meds to sleep after having a stroke.
I was a fan as a child, love him more now I'm almost 50 and struggled for 40 years with poor mental health. What an amazing man with a beautiful soul. Hope he finds happiness, health and peace ❤
Eight years on & the mental health care system is still poor! Unfortunately, I witnessed for myself last year, patients being treated appallingly in hospital by NHS trained staff...it was awful.
In my experience, the staff were great, but I don't agree with locking patients up on such a small ward with just a small concrete patio; the ill-equipped art room and TV room were the only things to occupy patients. It shouldn't feel so clinical either, it should be homely with bean-bags and things. My main complaint is the over-use of powerful anti-psychotics, which are administered against one's will, and cause terrible side effects, which last for months after the drugs have been stopped! The mental health budget should be much bigger.
I too became embroiled in the mental health system when I experienced psychotic episodes leading to full blown schizophrenia and later depression. The drugs were horrible and they also had side effects that felt disgusting. They worked in a way but I am only now reconnecting with parts of my psyche that were shut down by the experience. Although I'm grateful for the help I did receive we are still in the dark ages when it comes down to mental wellbeing. Thanks Adam for such intelligent insight.
Love Adam Ant ♥️!!!!! His outlook on Mental Health issues wilI have a great impact on easing the stigma that some people have about it. I have some things going on too. I am lucky that I have a wonderful support system.Don't worry about those of us who take meds. Worry about those who don't take them.. LadyCass Rinn
I am going thru a deep depression myself right now. I almost can't function. After loving Adam for 40 years and it just dawned on me to listen to this for myself. I'll never forget him saying that mental health is like a "fist through the skull". It really IS. What help is there, though?? Such a terrible disorder. 👊👊👊
Charming intelligent man- I'd love to see an exhibition of his art! And, he is so right- mental health issues are just shoved under the carpet and need more attention and better understanding!
A mí también me gustaría que salga algún libro con su arte
What an amazing human being! I have an immense respect for him. I understand what it’s like, and he puts it all so eloquently and so down to earth at the same time. May life treat him well!
Just discovering this wonderful, beautiful soul. Highly intelligent, sentitive and authentic and a lot more together than those fake people who pretend to be.
He speaks the truth...🖤Adam🖤
He is very smart, very brave and speaks the truth! I admire him, his work ethic, talent and speaking up!
Adam was absolutely spot on.
Loved Adam Ant...went to one of his concerts years ago and i was really sick that night...snucked up a balcony seat so i could see him....gorgeous.
Adam has always been a really interesting interviewee,nice to see him back where he belongs,the guy's a star!!!!
Adam ant is doing a tremendous service talking about mental health in public. The more people we have doing this the better. He is also right to emphasize the individuality of his experience and the complexity of all the factors involved. We need more celebrities and notable figures talking about their mental health and more of the general public and psychiatrists and psychologists and therapists listening to them. One thing I think Adam ant understandably found very difficult (and it is mentioned in some of his songs) was being hounded by the tabloid press. If someone is a successful and very talented musician then that is wonderful but it does NOT mean anyone owns them. And certainly not the tabloid press. Their private life and especially their marital and sexual life (unless they are indulging in violent or otherwise abusive behaviour) is strictly no-one else's business but their own. This is also true for the great Paul Mc Cartney and the ending of his second marriage. The paparazzi and newspaper barons need to spend some time (but not eternity) being chased by camera people and written about in red top newspapers after they die to see how they like it. They should then have to meet Adam Ant and Paul Mc Carntney again. If they have any ounce of decency in them they will apologise. People sometimes commit suicide because of what papers like the sun write about them so no - it isn't a bit of harmless fun.
Thank you for saying the stuff about pills. Very articulate. Richard Bacon, you should know better. Adam, absolutely commendable explanation.
I will be buying his book also. Thanks for the nudge.
A brave man indeed. saying things that needed to be said in support of those who are or were not pop stars. Thank you Adam. Your a good man.
Wow. I have known for a while that Adam Ant had mental health issues. I hope he's doing okay now. Good guy. Thank you for talking about it! 🌟
I agree with Adam It is wrong that anybody can get you committed. It is another way for people to do abuse on someone they want to hurt.
think of all the new career-choices for psychopaths....
I believe that Adam wrote the lyrics for his first album 'Dirk Wears White Sox" whilst in a mental institution (something I have experienced at least twice), and the song "Nine Plan Failed" deals with mental illness in the third person, dealing with an ex soldier. What annoys me the most about mental illness is the way the poor, like my partner's brother, can be locked away for 30 years as there is no family support to try to get them out and they end up institutionalised chemical zombies.
I love him before. I still love him. BUT AFTER THIS INTERVIEW CHANGE MY LAST NAME 'CUS I AM IN LOVE!!! Bless him for going out and talking about this! As to many people hide it. The bi-polar symptoms are different by gender and doctors in the UK vs The USA give it different symptoms. In the USA if you have they pill you up to being a zombie! It's all about finding a good doctor and knowing your rights. I agree with Adam and want to hug him silly now!
Im bipolar and had a srouke...nursing home
Stroke
@Champion Tonto the Wonder Horse no..just a mini stroke frontal lobe...the fun disappear....no clot i am bipolar so they say. Cant take noises very little
I feel like a part of my brain between eyes has been removed...
Is that you Adam Ant...or am i seeing things
thank you so much for talking about this. its very brave. im pretty sure my mother had an undiagnosed mental illness, my parents had plenty of money, that was actually a handicap to my siblings and i having any kind of help (we just kept moving) and our relatives were absolutely sure we must have been exaggerating. until they broke a few state laws and they were pretty brazen about it.thank you, also, for getting help and wanting to do better once you had children. you, your band, were pretty much my saving grace when i was a very unhappy teen being raised by crazy people who pretty much
did whatever they wanted, with almost no repercusion.
other than a little ptsd, im pretty much ok.in no small part, thanks to you.
The real problem for most of us as he illustrates when he says “Nobody told me to take a break”. Because most of us cannot afford to take a break.
Especially damaging if we are working with hostile/toxic people.
We end up becoming that poor stray cat who goes from town to town hissing at everyone… solely for the absence of warmth and understanding.
I respect his candor immensely. ❤️🇬🇧
I saw the documentary on Adam, The Madness of Prince Charming on here and that is where I first saw that he had mental health issues. I have mental health issues in my own family, my mum, myself, my dad too, except with him, it was depression, my mum was several mental breakdowns. I am a writer and mental health is something that's always scared me. Good for Adam for keeping up awareness of this stigma surrounding mental health issues. Always liked and admired him, especially after that documentary, even more so now. Mental health problems can affect anyone, doesn't matter who you are. I believe, as with myself, the thing that scares people most about it is that it is so unpredictable and there is no cure. Mental health problems can be depression, which affects millions and they're afraid to say or as extreme as screaming down the street. (My mum). Well done indeed, Adam. Hopefully those who suffer it, will start to feel less alone.
I tell you the truth, many teenagers who are bipolar and don't know it, come age 17 will suddenly start having suicidal thoughts, be in a desperate hurry to die... feel self hate, no value and worthless, even thou there is no reason for them to feel this way at all and everything in there life is pretty ok and great... what is causing this is the actual bipolar disorder, taking control of the steering wheel of the mind and the young person having no clue to what the hell is happening with them. I know this because at age 16 and younger i was perfectly happy and full of energy ( But in constant High Mania, Bipolar Hyper ),,, but when i turned 17..... depression hit me like a FIST IN MY JAW and it just got rougher by the day. I tell you the truth, it was only till around age 39 did I finally realise what was going on when ADAM ANT started speaking up about this sickness Bipolar that I started to understand i was sick, and it was not me that was depressed or suicidal, it was the Bipolar disorder disease telling me i was, when in fact i was not. So now I know who and what my enemy is, i now can fight back.... When the illness tells me negative crap, I know its Bipolar putting its fist in my skull and ignore it...
Tell it how it is Adam. You went up three notches in my book when you did a radio show about 4 decades back and played a Hank Williams tune. Sat near you and a pretty lady in a restaurant just off Regent's Park Rd back in the 80's. And yup, Nick Kent was the best-dressed man in town.
Adam i love you sir!!! Love you!!!
Excellent, excellent comment. I totally agree.
@dcadaw You can download the full interview with the Daily Bacon podcast. Visit the podcast section at the BBC Radio 5 live website.
Being sectioned, those are Victorian scenes he describes here. I never thought that still happens today.
It does and should be encouraged under the right circumstances.
they also still administer ECT (Electro Chocks , which is like hitting 1 particular needle in a haystack of needles)
there are psychiatrists in the US (Dallas area) lobying to get a law signed that will allow ECT on kids younger than 10 (this in those cases where the medications-used give the person to much ill-side-effects) they can than Chock him with Electro Chocks - now if he behaves, they will leave him alone if not .....
Please advise !!! ..... (and thank you for the broardcast) !!!
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At 4.36 mins the singer (Adam Ant) ... claims that :-
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Any "third party" (unbeknown) can make an allegation and "report" the individual to the
"Next of Kin"
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The "Next of Kin" then MUST convey that said allegation to a Doctor or "GP" level !!!
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And on the authorisation of the doctor ....(leading from the "third party") .... the individual
(victim) .... can have his/her civil liberties taken at a "dawn raid" !!!
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Many Thanks for the advice ..... BTW ..... wow you made some great music !!!!.... BRILLIANT !!!
A really informative interview,and he's spot on!We're now in 2017,and l must say,the mental health service is sadly lacking,to say the least.Having been in hospital in the past,l have to say the quality of the staff is on the whole substandard compared to say,your normal A&E hospital.
Also,there was condesention and bullying.A real treat indeed.....Sigh..👎👎
This is hitting home with my sister and I in the US
Adam ant good on him speaking out for mental health l know what it like l have bipolar disorder for 18 year's ago now l had nervous break down l stay in mental hospital for three weeks it was worse time of my life l said l would never go back in mental hospital and so far l been alright l on low dose of med l have good days and bad day.
Talented. And intelligent. Thank you dandy Highway man. Your words make a lot of sense. Hi from NZ.
He alluded to how being a "Rock Star" actively encourages the person to be off kilter. Being around Malcom MacClaren prolly didnt help.
I,m glad he has pulled thru and that he`s talking about it. Walk a mile in another man's shoes ..eh?
Adams a wonderfull man im under mental health well done that man he should be a speaker over mental health
Tell them Adam! You are absolutely right!!! Any one can be rail roaded in that instance. to obtain your wealth, your fortune and especially if they can take advantage of an older relative who is now at risk of being way laid by some person with bad intent. Can you imagine that? Now they've got a hold of your riches and you in a ward or dead.
This is a difficult matter. I have been there as well. I have tried to help friends during their crisis. The more we all know and understand the better we will get at helping people in crisis. Thank you Adam.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Adam honesty is heartbreaking regarding illness.
Its hard to get sectioned.Bi Polar disorder can make life dangerous to the sufferer & others.It takes 3 doctors to section you.Most people dont like being sectioned & will constantly try & justify why the y SHOULDnt have been sectioned.Its a minefield for the average person to understand.More scary is the fact they can force treatments on you,treatments with tablets/injections that ultimately make you ILL causing all sorts of problems & ultimately ruin your physical health too.
He is so caring and sensitive to other people's feelings and understands about peoples mental health issues
Its every where. Here, in America, people with mental health issues/ illness are medicated and nothing is truly done to get to the root of the problems or genuinely help them. I understand that every case is different and sometimes the medications are the best course of action. But we need to do better for our people who are struggling.
Great Info Adam..interesting
This man speaks the truth!
I think the most important lesson learned here is to never say to anyone in public to be normal. Normal is just taking on the least common mannerism and being nothing out of the box. If normality was killed, if people just tried to love one another for whoever they are, love in it self could be the healing. If more people were like Adam telling the truth about humanity between human beings and how hard it is to live as a "normal" when nothing is "normal" in the first place!
I always think I can't love him anymore and then he goes and proves me wrong. I actually saw him live once in a camp festival when I was about six. I only remember snapshots of it but I just remember being totally transfixed.
Hope I don’t offend but just wanted to say you might want to edit ‘anymore’ to ‘any more’ because they have two very vastly different meanings and I’m sure you meant the latter. Also I couldn’t agree more. What’s funny is I’ve known some of his music since my childhood yet it wasn’t until about a month ago I realized I did! I then dove headfirst into his catalog and became an instant fan. Watching these interviews has made me realize he is one of the best people to ever exist and I cannot get enough of his presence and wisdom, truly. Such a remarkable human being, perfect if you ask me, mental illness and all as it just makes him who he is.
adam is a good guy.
Creative people are the most disturbed.
Michael Langley yup...im one🤗
I'm going to throw my safety overboard and join his insect nation!
it's not just uk its America in general.look at the people that claim they are manic depressive or bipolar simply for attention and what happens they are taking time , money and court appointed time from people who are really sick that's the worse part . my cousin for yrs was in and out of rehabs because they thought the drugs he had used were the issue ( he did some very dark things while having a bipolar episode) couple yrs ago they finally found out he's bipolar ...he takes medication and watches or listens to things that will keep him calm ......
good on Adam Ant for speaking out... unfortunately the mental health system is very similar to the 1 here in Australia.. Human rights are a major problem with mental heath systems across the world... Places like UK and Australia should be leading the World instead where not much better off than some 3rd world countries.
@ryko26 Lol, I was just thinking that was one of if not the most eloquent discussions/accounts I have ever heard come out of a celebrities mouth in my entire life.
I've found that people without some degree of hypomania think hypomanic people sound mad where as personally (having hypomania-BP2) I don't really find any other conversations in the least bit stimulating. I think we tend to be a bit more free-form and emotionally focused in our conversational style. Diff style of comm. is all.
You can be placed on a sec 136 via the police HOWEVER there is only ONE 136 suite in each town and I suspect that’s not the case in most towns. I am a mental health nurse and we are at breaking point, we need more facilities not shutting more down! We need to train more nurses and we need to start education on this in junior school, that and first aid! Rant over because I love my job 💕
Good on ya Stuart, same issue down here in Oz. Listened to your music since 1981. Now, I'm listening all ears, your making too much sense here. The branding of people with mental health issues is the last great bastion of discrimination. It's gotta stop, and I mean now... Oh! By the way, Johnny Depp just called, he said he's coming back as you you in the next life!!!
I cut off my earlobes because of nothing ended up in the hospital seven stitches in each ear near my arteries I could of died. Two weeks I was gone from my home mental illness is very serious 🙏
Very cool guy. Is aging well too!
Well done Adam
Adam ant has not changed much,still a good looker xx
Looks just like Johmy Depp. Love u Ant 🐜
I feel very strongly aboute the way society treats mental health I wonder if Adam even knows this interview is on utube and people will comment I feel thats a lot to answer for ppl threatening peoples loved ones people judging especially none stars who Adam calls working class like his parents I bet his parents are lovely people but there is a very secular none compassionate thread of bad people who have mental health it's very diverse you can be working class and think your a rockstar these days what defines a rockstar anyway ppl in society and crummby rotton judgemental notice the word judgemental and where does the word jusgement come from Ask yourself there are too many I think I'm famous normal people trust me iv loved ones who are so famous that they will say who's that why would I want his/ her autograph famedome has changed stardome has changed not one person who ever walked this earth don't have an ego and a mental health capasity Depression it runs through every living person and media has a lot to answer for and who is the actual Master of this realm noone wants to believe the king gave him domain for a period but it will cease the plan is bigger
Yiremik. Yes i agree with you. Also its a pitty that some mentle ill people dont realise that shooting dead young school children or shooting people in plymouth is definitely not the answer. This man did not do anything like that , he may have broken the law throwing a car alternator in a pub window but he didnt shoot & kill anyone.
That is seriously frightening!
Adam is a good man.
Well hold on my brother has bipolar and he's been sectioned loads of times when he's having an episode one of his things is driving about at ridiculous speeds in his powerful car drunk His doctor was collecting his daughter from a local school and my brother passed going about 100mph with the top down music blaring Are you saying he shouldn't be sectioned? In this instance he was sectioned later that day after he arrived at my parents home and threw my 80 year old father on the floor
Its hard to exist in this world, keeping your wits about you when people question your sanity because you dont fit in with the cyborgs, its happened to me, and I had to try to do things to try and "normalise" myself.
Bah! I can't find the entire program on the BBC site or download it- downfall of being in the U.S. I suppose.
what's the difference between courage and bravery in your sentence?
Love you ❤
I don't really know if it's the government who are to blame or the decision makers at the top of the NHS or simply the British psyche and general attitude towards mental health issues is the biggest stumbling block towards greater awareness and education about Mental Health.
One of the things I am sure about is that it would be getting a much higher priority under Labour than it ever would under a Conservative government in the UK.
But the main part of the issue is the lack of funding from the NHS.
Year in, Year out the government gives the NHS whatever it's annual budget is.
Now, about a quarter of everything the National Health Service does is related in some way or other to Mental Health.
A Quarter put another way is obviously about 25-30%, ok?
The percentage of the NHS annual budget that the Mental Health services receive each year is approximately 10%.
You don't really have to be Einstein to see that the those at the top don't really give a Castlemaine XXXX about anyone who has a MH issue or they would be prepared to do something to help address this horrific imbalance.
But of course, they won't and you can more than likely bet your bottom dollar that they have no real intentions or genuine interest in doing anything remotely positive about it.
love you
Absolutely
My x-husband has bi-polar disorder. We were married for 20+ years. It was a nightmare for the whole family. When we finally figured out what it was, it was like a lightbulb went on, he got on medicine and the whole world changed for him and us. The tricky thing about bi-polar disorder is that the sufferer tends to stop taking the medicine because his brain feels “fine” and he doesn’t need it. Then the mania comes on, which in the beginning of it - THEY LOVE THE FEELING OF- and off we go into another 6-month nightmare. Delusions, grandiose behavior, then depression, suicide, remorse over all the damage you caused while manic....... repeat repeat repeat.
It horrible.
agree
He’s right.
I love Adam and I don't know how England deals with mental illness, but America has a real problem and I wish we had the right to put people away for longer than three days until we can restore their health. It's criminal how we care for the mentally ill in this country.
@ryko26 Hopefully that didn't come across as pompous, which is another common misperception I think.
Ditto!
nice hat
well thank you :-)
I am in America and I do not know what *sectioned* means.
+xlaurenstephens deemed unfit to be in public due to being mentally unstable, therefor put into a 'section of society', that section being, for want of a better term 'locked up in a mental institution'......
it means in the UK that if a doctor decides you are in a negative mental state and having a break down...they will lock you up in a mental hospital ..and you have no say
Hi, Kingdom X... yep, what anon amous wrote... comparable in the U.S. at best to a 302, except with even less rights. At least for a 302, the individual has to have expressed a desire to end either their own or another person's life, and whoever calls it in has to have direct knowledge of their plan. It's actually a good thing because it's protective. A sectioning in the UK, though, wow, what on earth. Actually, it seems more like this: in the U.S., if two people (or more) get a stick in their rear they can call the police and accuse someone of committing a crime (that they didn't commit). The person being accused will be thrown in jail - no questions asked - until an appointed court date (yeah, so much for "innocent until proven guilty;" that's b.s. here) simply because there were two or more accusers. It's total crap. (Happened to me, only by the grace of God the cop DID believe me and he didn't arrest me - plus I had evidence that I wasn't where I was accused of being at the time. I thank God for that, too, believe me.) Adam's had a crap deal with some of his family, it seems. Way to rise above. Wish I could meet him. I actually saw him in concert this past week (WOW). I stood there amazed at his energy - especially having come through what he has. Such a blessing - had a smile on my face almost the whole time. God bless him lots I hope, really.
I'm from Australia and had no idea what it meant either 😅 Thank you for the info guys x
It also means that the NHS can force you to take whatever medications they want while you are under a hospital order (section).
Thank Christ for the humane UK health system that automatically treats the mentally ill instead of leaving them to rot on the streets like the USA
Wow.... I'm an American....and I know our mental health system is fucked up....for most of the so called 'normal' reasons:
Lack of Funding, Prejudice, Stereotyping.......over/or under medicating....and more...
But, this very video is my first 'experience' with the "English" mental health system and it sounds like the system/and/or other people can go behind your back and have you 'institutionalized"........wow.....
Both countries, and the world in general really need to be more 'empathetic' and open to mental health....No matter how 'normal' one seems everyone is fucked up in some way......
We need more talk therapy than drugs.
Great Indian role model
@LisaK7100 It's all about money in America.
@fairweatherfreak - "Part of the problem is due to the commercialisation of medicine" come again?
Poor man. Fame is monster. Greedy monster that devours the celebrity's entire life.
plz visit www.madinamerica.com or www.cchr.org (also in your local language) 4 real information !!
DIANETICS
Oh,and as an addendum here,most couldn't speak decent English !What more do you say....
where'd the hair come from..? sewn into the hat ?
Where's your rock