Joe Tracini reveals childhood abuse amid mental health battle
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Hollyoaks actor Joe Tracini reveals heartbreaking abuse as a child in a new documentary.
Joe Tracini: Me and the Voice in My Head, which premieres on Thursday April 4, follows the 35-year-old as he speaks about his experience of BPD.
BPD is a disorder of mood and how a person interacts with others and symptoms are emotional instability, disturbed patterns of thinking or perception, impulsive behaviour and intense but unstable relationships with others, according to the NHS.
The 34-year-old, who played Dennis Savage in the Channel 4 soap from 2011 to 2014, tearfully opened up about being sexually abused as a young child.
‘On the film, you are watching me saying that out loud for the first time,’ he said.‘I’m sick of being the only person who knows that that happened but also, it’s terrifying. As you can see, I’ve not done much work on talking about it. But at least I’m in a position now to maybe be able to help myself.
Joe has been vocal about his struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts (Picture: ITV)
He added: ‘I’ve not said that out loud for 29 years. I’ve not given myself any room to let people help. If I haven’t told somebody something, they can’t help. I don’t want to feel like this any more.’
After being diagnosed in 2019, Joe has previously spoken about how he had tried to take his life five times.
Back in 2021 Joe penned a first-person piece for Metro.co.uk aiming to inspire hope in those undergoing mental health struggles.
‘You are definitely not hopeless. You might feel like you are, because if you’re looking for hope it means you had some but you lost it,’ he wrote.
You might have less hope now than you’ve had in the past, but you’re not hopeless.’
In it, he shared he had been a drug addict, but was now eight years clean, and had also been sober for six years after struggling with alcoholism.
He also spoke about living with ‘daily suicidal thoughts that are always there’, but urged others to not ‘kill yourself’, reminding them he was thinking of them all and hoped they were ‘ok’.
Since then, Joe has regularly shared updates with his followers on social media about how he is going.
Need support? Contact the Samaritans For emotional support you can call the Samaritans 24-hour helpline on 116 123, email [email protected], visit a Samaritans branch in person or go to the Samaritans website.
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