Ángel Martín shares the moment in which he suffered a psychotic outbreak and had to enter a psychiatric hospital: “It is important to mention it out loud”

The presenter and comedian Ángel Martín publishes this Tuesday ‘In case the voices return’, a book in the first person about how it was rebuilt after admission to a psychiatric hospital for an episode to which the doctors put the name of ‘psychotic break produced by drug use and depression’.

In 2017, Ángel Martín was seen at the controls of a spaceship, conversed with death and even congratulated his girlfriend on social media for the box office success from ‘Wonder Woman’, which, of course, she had nothing to do with.

He filled her house with gifts and she realized something was wrong with him. He decided to sound the alarm and take him to the hospital. After two weeks admitted, says the comedian who left the hospital broken, immersed in a depression and without understanding anything of what had happened to him.

He wanted to look for books on cases like yours and, since he couldn’t find them, decided to relate his experience as a guide, in case he could serve others, or himself if he relapsed.

One year later, and at a time when the pandemic has revealed the fragility of the Spanish mental health care system, The Planeta publishing house is releasing a book that on the day of its launch it has already reached the third edition.

In an interview with EFE, the monologue has explained that he is “challenging” the voices, and that when they appear they “talk about everything”However, he assures that they have not done it again since he left the hospital: “There were so many messages, so many plots and so many signs that it is very difficult to remember what they said.”

Although he has indicated that there was a time when he thought he would not come back, he is currently fighting for “stay sane by trying to live with consistency and common sense“.

In addition, highlights the value of mental health: “The first step would be to try to lose the fear of mentioning out loud to our closest environment that we are wrong. Sometimes we focus on what we cannot have, unfortunately, because of how sanitation works here, and we forget of the steps we can take. And I think it’s super important to mention out loud: ‘I’m a bit regular, this is happening to me …‘. Without the fear or shame of people close to you making a cross for you. And also lose the fear of asking if the other is okay and if you can give him a cable. “

In that sense, he appreciates the role of his partner, who has been “fundamental”: “The person who accompanies someone who has suffered something like this is one of the most important figures in a recovery and one of the hardest jobs, because you don’t know what is happening to the other person. ”

And remember that in the end, you see “the light”: “When you start to have confidence in yourself, to make decisions and do certain things without the approval of others is when you see the light a little. From there you pick up other things and try to rebuild yourself from scratch. ”

“I believe that when we go through something and overcome something it makes no sense not to share it. It is as if you were in a corner saying: ‘Look how brown that one is, I have passed it and I have a couple of tools that might be good for it.’ Come over and give him the two tools. They may not serve you, but they may. You lose nothing by sharing it. Going through something like that, going back, overcoming it and not sharing it with others is stupid like a temple “, the comedian has settled.