A Head Full of Blue

When Nick Johnstone got drunk for the first time at the age of 14 he discovered a cure for the depression and anxiety that had been humming in his head since childhood.

Over the next ten years he drank to overcome shyness, to make the world bearable, to get through the days and to get through the nights.

He also began to cut himself and he began to lie. Intelligent, sensitive, from a loving family, neither he nor his countless doctors, phychiatrists, councellors and therapists could understand where his disorders came from.

Then, when he was 24 he was admitted into hospital. Stripped of his "cure", Nick Johnstone painfully began the process of recovery.

Although love proves to be the strongest "cure" of all, this is a story with no tidy or happy endings.