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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Adam Maidment

‘I was told my dreams of making it in film were symptoms of bipolar - now they're coming true'

When 19-year-old Jack Nolan was sectioned after suffering with delusions and psychosis, he was told to put his dreams of being a writer and actor on hold.

Then at university, studying film and television, he was told by doctors that his ambitions of making it were just another example of grandiose behaviour, associated with his bipolar condition.

Six years on, now aged 25, and Jack has written two books - On The Job and Dead Ends - about Manchester's criminal underworld - and has just filmed a pilot based on one of them.

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