Last Chance Saloon is the story of Neil 'Twink' Tinning, a troubled, magnificent man living with bipolar disorder, and his unique attempt to understand the science behind his, and many other, mental health conditions - all while getting ready to play the biggest gig of his life.
In part 5, Twink's mood dips as the implications of the gig begin to loom. His investigations into mental illness lead him to Professor Ian Jones at Cardiff's Sixways Stadium. A rugby fan and expert on post-partum psychosis, Ian explains how severe this condition, affecting some women following childbirth, can be. Twink talks to Clare Dolman, a woman with terrifying, firsthand experience of the illness, and starts to realise that different mental illnesses have similar features.
Directed, filmed and edited by Barry J Gibb (Mosaic, 2014).
To find out more about mental health, visit:
National Centre for Mental Health: ncmh.info/
Mind: mind.org.uk/
Bipolar UK: bipolaruk.org.uk/
Time To Change: time-to-change.org.uk/
