Michi Marosszeky

6 min | 2020 | Australia | East Coast Premiere

Woven Threads is a series of documentaries reminding us of our shared humanity and the frailty of life. OLIVE addresses teen depression. At the age of nine, Olive began to have negative thoughts but she managed to hide them from everyone until she was eleven and a half, the first year of high school. After much school refusal, multiple psychologists, and several schools Olive had to be admitted to a youth mental health unit for six weeks. She is now sixteen, she lives with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), Major Depressive Disorder, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Anxiety.

Watch her as she tells her story, her challenges and how she grows from her experiences, not always smoothly but always forwards, learning new techniques for coping with her extremely challenging life.

Awards: Winner of the Impact Docs Award; Official Selections:Chicago Int’l Children’s FF.