Editor’s note: The latest in a series of Deadline reports looking at how the current upheaval in the media & entertainment industry is impacting mental health.
On the heels of Covid and with an ongoing contraction following last year’s double Hollywood strikes, it’s a particularly tricky time to maintain mental health for those working in production.
Sarah McCaffrey, a UK therapist well versed in the demands of life on set, notes that entertainment is an industry offering its predominantly freelance workforce “low certainty and low control” to begin with. Throw in the turbulence of recent years, and anxieties are heightened across the board.
McCaffrey, founder of mental wellness company Solas Mind, which has worked on everything from Netflix’s Heartstopper to the Hugh Jackman drama The Son and Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, says that looking to the future, “People are anxious about: ‘What will the industry look like?...
On the heels of Covid and with an ongoing contraction following last year’s double Hollywood strikes, it’s a particularly tricky time to maintain mental health for those working in production.
Sarah McCaffrey, a UK therapist well versed in the demands of life on set, notes that entertainment is an industry offering its predominantly freelance workforce “low certainty and low control” to begin with. Throw in the turbulence of recent years, and anxieties are heightened across the board.
McCaffrey, founder of mental wellness company Solas Mind, which has worked on everything from Netflix’s Heartstopper to the Hugh Jackman drama The Son and Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, says that looking to the future, “People are anxious about: ‘What will the industry look like?...
- 7/23/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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