Soul Care

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.

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.