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Over a decade ago now, I was going out with this girl. It was turbulent, her behaviour becoming more and more unpredictable, ending in a split. We agreed to try again and went on holiday. It seemed to work and we were back on track. We came back on a Friday. On the Monday I had a phone call from her work to ask where she was. I thought she had overslept, went around the flat to find she had died in her sleep. She had undiagnosed Epilepsy. And I found out subsequently, the erratic behaviour was because of that. I got fed up with people asking me how I was. I do suffer from OCD and depression myself and this became an immense struggle for me so, I wrote a book, a work of fiction but based on us. I gave it to my friends to read. The first I knew anything more was when I had, through the post a few copies of the book. One of my friends had paid for it to be published. I had always wanted to be a writer and here it was. I had a book. And then my life carried on. I moved on with stuff. Amazing things, good things. Some not so. Then about 5 years ago, I woke up one morning, believing I'd had an epiphany and told my now wife I was going to turn it into a film. Ever the realist, she pointed out I did not know how to write a script, which was true, so using Wikipedia and Google, I taught myself. I did not want this story to be seen as being about '2 freaks getting together', rather about 2 people with real things in their lives to deal with. Demystifying such challenges is one of the main drivers.
The journey since that point has included;