Hollyoaks star Joe Tracini broke down on Twitter on Monday as he shared his battle with addiction and discussed being diagnosed with a type of bipolar disorder.
The actor, who is best known for his role as Dennis Savage in the Channel 4 soap, revealed how he got better after 'climbing over the wrong side of a bridge,' two weeks after taking a 'sizeable overdose'.
The 30-year-old son of comedian Joe Pasquale began the video saying: 'I was a drug addict, I was an alcoholic, I went to three rehabs. I am nearly seven years clean.
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Heartbreaking: Joe Pasquale's Hollyoaks actor son Joe Tracini, 30, broke down on Twitter on Monday as he detailed his past drug addiction and mental health battle
Honest: The shock video was taken during the height of his addiction in 2012, - and he admitted he climbed over the 'wrong side of a bridge' two weeks after it was filmed
'I'm over four years sober and I have been left with a personality disorder called Emotional Unstable Personality Disorder, also known as BPD, which is like a Poundshop bipolar.
'It's mostly the same stuff, just some of it's a bit s***ter. That is what I'm living with.'
He continued: 'When you are living with this sort of stuff, you get asked a lot of "why" questions. "Why are you doing this? Why don't you just stop doing this? Why are you doing this again"?'
Truth: Joe is best known for his role as Dennis Savage in Hollyoaks (pictured) - he said he was been left with Emotional Unstable Personality Disorder
'And the problem with that is, the person with the problems, is generally asking themselves the same questions.'
Joe's frank discussion comes during Mental Health Awareness week as he is keen to help anyone else who may find themselves in a similar situation.
He explained that people living with an addict can get to a point where they have exhausted everything they can think of to try and help them.
