ITV star Anushka Asthana shares her bi-polar family trauma with Labour deputy Angela Rayner
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To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, ITV deputy political editor Anushka Asthana has spoken about her brother, who died 12 years ago and had bipolar disorder , for the first time. On average, people currently wait nine-and-a-half years to be diagnosed with the mental illness