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‘I felt powerless to help’: Charlotte Church reveals heartbreaking struggle with bipolar mum’s self-harm and alcohol abuse
Charlotte Church appearance at Maria Church 'Chiesa' Boutique, Pontcanna, Cardiff, Wales, Britain – 24 Nov 2006
Singer Charlotte Church has revealed how she has struggled to cope with her bipolar mum’s self-harm and alcohol abuse – saying the ‘darker periods’ left the star feeling ‘powerless’ to help.
In a new TV programme, Charlotte Church: Inside My Brain, the singer explores treatments in mental health, the causes of these disorders, as well as what the future holds for our brains.
“It’s a subject close to my heart,” the 31-year-old former child star says in the BBC show. “It has been difficult growing up and watching my mother suffer like this, in her darker periods I felt quite powerless and unsure how best to help her.
“The one thing I could do was try to understand but understanding mental health means understanding the human brain.”
Maria Church explains that she has been a sufferer of bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic depression) all of her daughter’s lif..
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