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Welcome to Going Mental. This is your host,

Eileen Kelly. I'm interested in the things many of us face,

but don't always talk about. On the show, not only will I be sharing more about my own

anxiety as in depression but I'm also going to be talking to a wide range of guests about their

own mental health journeys along with professionals we're going to help educate you and

me on the ins and outs of mental illness. Can't wait for you to hear what's in

store. On today's episode I'm joined by Alec Kachetian. He's an American film

writer, producer, and director.

He is best known for his 1991 documentary,

Madonna Truth or Dare, which was until 2002,

the highest grossing documentary of all time. His most recent documentary for Apple TV,

Salina Gomez, My Mind and Me, came out actually last week. So I'm super excited for you guys to listen. We did this recording like a week or two

before the documentary came out and so far I think it's doing really well. So enjoy.

Can you please introduce yourself? We'll start with that. Sure. I am Alec Keshishin and I'm a director. I directed an latest documentary, Nick Gomez my mind in me.

Perfect.

Actually, I think it's our only documentary.

I think so too.

I'm a Selina fan.

Can you just walk me through a little bit of background, you know, where you're from, you grew up in New Hampshire, but are you from Lebanon I read?

Yeah, I was

for me. Okay. My parents immigrated to this country when I was four and I grew up in Boston and then

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