'I thought I was on The Truman Show'
Jonny Benjamin is only 26 but has been coping with mental illness since childhood. Now he video blogs about it and has recently received an award for his work.
If you're prone to extreme anxiety or get obsessive thoughts, it's perhaps not surprising that a film like Jim Carrey's The Truman Show might stick in your mind and get you thinking. And thinking. And thinking.
In the film, Truman - played by Carrey - lives his entire life on-screen for the pleasure of TV viewers around the world.
"Nothing in [Truman's] life is real," says Benjamin, who lives in Manchester and works for a media production company. "Everyone's an actor and every scenario is fabricated by a director - and he's the only one that doesn't know it."
The film caught the imagination of cinema-goers in 1998 and was nominated for three Oscars.
Benjamin recalls watching the film at the cinema with a friend, who said: "Maybe that could be you, but you wouldn't know it.........
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