Soul Care

She first cut herself when she was 13 and did so countless times after that. What drives young people to self-harm and what can be done to protect them from it? Unique testimonies in a film by Zuzana Kirchnerová, shot for the authorial docuseries Soul Care, describes how people with mental health problems feel and how their diagnoses are seen by experts.

For years, everyone thought Michal was just a junkie. It was only in his therapeutic community that he was found to have a dual diagnosis: a comorbidity of untreated, psychiatric illness bottled up and exacerbated by his chronic drug addiction. A long journey of detoxing, treatment, and long-stay rehab sets him free.