Why you are 17 times more likely to be diagnosed with a serious mental health condition if you are a black man in Britain, and six times more likely than a white man to be an inpatient in a mental health unit?
Furthermore, why have 56 percent of Black inpatients in mental health units been sectioned, more than any other ethnic group, and why are they much less likely to receive talking treatment but higher doses of medication?
Being Black, Going Crazy? is presented by blogger and radio presenter Keith Dube, who speaks to mental health experts and community leaders about Black mental health, exploring the multitude of factors that could be contributing to the statistics: from racism to religion, social and urban deprivation as well as why the issue is so taboo in black communities, as he finds that 67 percent of black people with mental health difficulties have been stigmatised and treated unfairly by their own families.
Motivated by the complexities of his own personal experience of depression, Keith visits a secure mental health unit to try to better understand the mental health crisis facing the black community - and opens up the important conversation with his 25,000 followers on Twitter about how deal with the stigma around black mental health sufferers.
Pictured: Ashley, who features in the documentary
