Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

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Maybe I Don't Belong Here shines a light on the interplay between race, identity and mental well-being with tremendous moral courage. In this memoir, David Harewood is incredibly open when reflecting on his mental health and his experiences with psychosis. Believing that his"blackness" contributed to the lack of roles he received, he realized that he had been living in a "white space" without thinking it was abnormal.

He was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, [36] spent time on the Whittington Hospital psychiatric ward, and was prescribed the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine. And many people aren't, but I think I've done probably more work than most in being happy in whatever space you are. Black and British was longlisted for the Orwell Prize, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. It shocks to the core and his ensuing mental health issues, so honestly depicted, are an indictment of what society was then and still is today.Psychosis and Me, a documentary hosted and produced by Harewood received a BAFTA Television Award nominated for Single Documentary. see a picture of a black person that they may recognise from the television, they will enquire as to why his picture is there, and then they'll understand… all of the unpaid work that my ancestors did, and the brutality of what they suffered… helped build this house.

And speaking to a historian in Barbados, one learns that on every slave that was sold, the monarch took taxes. Still, this book is key in getting the conversation going and in showing that identity and mental health are deeply intertwined.His parents are originally from Barbados in the Caribbean and they moved to England in the 50s and 60s. Many people look beyond the oppression, the brutality, and they're not interested in seeing it any other way. As part of a BBC Look North programme in 2007, David Harewood visited Lascelles' ancestral home, Harewood House, which was built with the profits of slavery, and interviewed Lascelles on the subject.

Thre is no black in the union jack) I didn’t do that as a child; then I just related it to the Queen's Jubilee. For me this held both lessons and affirmations of what it means to be a Black British man and the struggles to reconcile our inherent contradictions. In October 2013, Harewood voiced an interactive video campaign for the British Lung Foundation aiming to ban smoking in cars with children on board in the United Kingdom.My pov is this book should be a must read for anyone struggle with the impact of racism and being Black in the UK. David Harewood is an actor, and relatively well-known (many would know him 'off something', most recently I've seen him in Supergirl). I would like to thank David Harewood for providing such an honest, open, and raw account of his mental health struggles in his early 20's and the journey it taken him on.