Dylan Hood says that living live with mental health issues "feels like somebody else owns your brain and he hates you".

The 20-year-old from Dundee has struggled with his mental health since he was a teenager.

He says: "Why can't I just take my brain and just give it to somebody else to store away and give me a new brain, so that way I won't have any more mood swings or anger issues.

"I would just be happy when I need to be."

Despite his issues, Dylan has been working on his mental health through the medium of drama and film and as such, he is able to open up about his struggles.

It's all thanks to Dundee arts project Art Angel which supports people with their mental health through the creative arts.

Dylan left school at 14 without any qualifications, right around the time his mental health began to deteriorate.

"I was deemed unteachable by the teachers at that time," he explains.

"I did Calms and all that from 14 until 16 and then it was just different things like dipping into medication and put on anti-psychotics."

Dylan has autism and Asperger's and says he struggles to control his anger.

He noticed his mood had changed as a teenager and as a result, struggled to express himself.

"I became a bit of a hermit, I was in the house all the time.

"I just didn't know how to deal with it. I was like 'how am I feeling so low all the time?'.

"I would get angry and start punching walls. That obviously wasn't good on my mum or my family, that's why I needed help."

It was then Dylan began to visit creative project Art Angel as a teenager as part of a young person's group and he says the opportunity to express himself and be creative makes him feel like he's "in another world".

"It's helped me a lot because it's helped me do what I want to do.

"I'm a creative person and that's the one thing I'm good at, being creative.

"I like coming here, It feels like another world sometimes because the outside world is the outside world but this feels like it's your world as well as other people's world.

"People are in the same situation as you so they're like-minded, they're not there to aggravate you or anything."

Art Angel supports people with experience of mental health difficulties to express themselves through the arts, from creative writing and photography to drama and film.

The project encourages its participants to learn new skills as well as build on existing abilities, benefiting from the therapeutic value of the arts.

Exhibiting work completed through Art Angel is encouraged and not only allowed participants to redefine themselves as artists but also to make the wider community aware of mental health issues.

The project has helped Dylan to be more open about his feelings and to overcome a fear of appearing "weak" for speaking out.

"Men have a hard time talking about their feelings, not that women don't - it's just the way the world views men as tough, it's hard for them.

"The way I felt for a long time was the only way I could show my emotions was anger, because I thought if I started crying or if I started talking about my emotions, it would make me look weak."

Reporting by Ben Philip