Dr Mark Cross has spent his entire professional career fighting stigma.

As a familiar face on the ABC documentary series Changing Minds, Dr Cross was instrumental in providing viewers with an inside look into the locked wards of Sydney’s Liverpool Hospital’s mental health unit.

The program was groundbreaking – not only for being the first program in television history to shoot inside one of the busiest psychiatric units in the country, but for its non-judgemental portrayal of the stories of patients on the road to recovery and the staff that cared for them.

Now, five years on from when the first episode aired, Dr Cross has worked to address the mental health issues faced by medical professionals by documenting his own life-long battles in his book, Anxiety, Expert Advice by a Neurotic Shrink, to be published next year.