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Full transcript of 'ME - The Movie' - 9 November 2017.
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- 10 November 2017
- Disability
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This is a full transcript of 'ME - The Movie' as presented by Natasha Lipman and first broadcast on 9 November 2017.
NATASHA - Hi, this is Inside Ouch. I'm Natasha Lipman. If you're streaming this interview over the web please subscribe to BBC Ouch as a podcast wherever you usually get your podcasts from. You'll get An awesome new dose of disability appearing in your feed every single week.
I'm here with you today instead of the usual Ouch team because I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jennifer Brea. Jen has ME, which you might know better as chronic fatigue syndrome, and it's something that I've also had for a number of years as has my mother, and my brother has it a little bit too, so it's something that I'm very familiar with. She's recently released a film about the condition called Unrest. A few weeks ago Jen and her husband, Omar, popped over to see us at the BBC to talk about their story. She describes her current health situation as being like a battery which only charges about 40%. I'm also not feeling so great at the moment, and you can probably hear it in both of our voices as we chat.
As the opening credits roll on the film we see Jen lying on the floor completely unable to move, and her arms are shaking as she tries to pull herself up. It's a situation that I've been in more times than I would like to count and it's something that I think is very familiar for a lot of people with chronic illnesses.