Brutally honest, brave and enlightening, David Harewood’s memoir and account of his breakdown is a fascinating read. It may be just one account from the perspective of a person of colour who has experienced this system, but it may be enough to potentially change an opinion or, more importantly, stop someone else from spinning completely out of control.

That Harewood, during his first psychotic episode, heard the voice of Martin Luther King telling him to head to Camden, north London, at 3am on a mission to close the spiritual gap between good and evil has everything to do with the post-racial vision of the famous “I have a dream” speech.Thank you, David, for giving us this book - the black men and women, those hoping to be white allies, those who just happened across it. It's been formally recognised as a Borough of Sanctuary and is teeming with creative individuals and communities.

And many people aren't, but I think I've done probably more work than most in being happy in whatever space you are. One of the Observer 's Best Memoirs of the Year and The Times Best Film and Theatre Books of the Year. A successful Black British actor David Harewood also had a mental breakdown and suffered from psychosis.

He was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, [36] spent time on the Whittington Hospital psychiatric ward, and was prescribed the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine. You have to have your failures to have your success, you've got to have your tough times to recognise and appreciate the good times. The following year, for his performance in "Free in Deed", Harewood won Best Actor at the 2018 British Urban Film Festival awards. For example, there are a couple of places where he just casually mentions things like he moved in with a woman and had a child.