And if you’re a teenager and you want to learn more about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, then you could have a peek at our Information For Young People page, which contains answers to some of the questions that people often ask about OCD. If you want to find out more about the TV show, take a look at the E4 website. (Praying counting checking and opening and closing the front door exactly 36 times…) Rae talks about some of her obsessions (including the threat of nuclear war), and about some of her compulsions. If you’ve been affected by OCD, or if you’ve been struggling with any kind of mental health condition, then you might be able to relate to some of the things Rae describes in this article. In this Guardian story, Rae Earl talks about her real life, growing up in Lincolnshire and trying to deal with a range of mental health issues – including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). We spotted an interesting article in The Guardian – and you can read the full article here. The TV show (which adds fictional characters to Rae’s story) is about a sixteen-year-old girl (Rae) struggling to cope with a number of issues – including some mental health conditions.

If you’ve been watching the new TV drama “My Mad Fat Diary” on E4, then you might already know that it’s loosely based on the memoir (originally titled “My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary”) by Rae Earl. My Mad Fat Diary – 365 days with one of the wisest and funniest girls in England.If you’ve been affected by OCD, or if you’ve been struggling with any kind of mental health condition, then you might be able to relate to some of the things Rae describes in this article. Rae's chronicle of her world will strike a chord with anyone who's ever been a confused, lonely teenager clashing with her parents, sometimes overeating, hating her body, always taking herself VERY seriously, never knowing how positively brilliant she is and keeping a diary to record it all. Surrounded by people like her constantly dieting mum, her beautiful frenemy Bethany, her mates from the private school up the road (called 'Haddock', 'Battered Sausage' and 'Fig') and the handsome, unattainable boys Rae pines after (who sometimes end up with Bethany.), My Mad Fat Diary is the story of an overweight young woman just hoping to be loved at a time when slim pop singers ruled the charts. My Mad Fat Diary is the hilarious, harrowing and touching real-life diary Rae kept during that fateful year and the basis of the hit British television series of the same on HULU.

She's also just been released from a psychiatric ward. It's 1989 and Rae Earl is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint green bathroom and a refrigerator Rae can't keep away from. The funny, sad and compelling diary kept by an overweight teenage girl that became the basis for the British television sensation of the same name available to stream on HULU.

My fat teenage diary