My Mad Fat Diary

I keep a diary of all my thoughts and most of the time I don't even think about what I'm writing.

Created by Rae Earl

On E4

A darkly comic, intimate portrait of a young woman navigating mental illness and body shame in 1990s England, balancing sarcastic humour with genuine vulnerability and the warmth of friendship.

Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.