After being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rosie Viva experienced the ‘hardest year’ of her life trying to accept her new reality

Model and actress Rosie Viva has been an outspoken ambassador for Bipolar UK, sharing her experience with the condition in books, documentaries and most recently the charity's new Maybe It's Bipolar film . But the 29 year old wasn't always so accepting of her own condition .

Speaking to Reach at the premiere of her new short film, Rosie shared: "Accepting my diagnosis was the hardest year of my life. I didn't want a life with it because what I knew about bipolar at that moment was hospital and psychosis and losing everything.

"My understanding of the illness was that extreme, that maybe I'd be someone who would never be able to go to work again

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