TOPIC : FIVE TED TALKS ON MENTAL ILLNESS

GROUP MEMBERS :

1.) SAMARTH PRAVIN SRIVASTAVA - 21102095

2.) RISHABH MISHRA - 21102097
3.) ANIRUDH GUPTA - 21102105
4.) RIJUL RAJ - 21102108
 TED TALKS

THE 5 TED TALKS ON MENTAL ILLNES ARE :

1) . There’s No Shame in Taking Care of Your Mental Health from

Sangu Delle

When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his
own deep prejudice: that men shouldn’t take care of their mental health. In a
personal talk, Delle shares how he learned to handle anxiety in a society that’s
uncomfortable with emotions. As he says: “Being honest about how we feel doesn’t
make us weak — it makes us human.”

When asked to see a mental health expert at first, Mr. Delle declined with a profound
sense of shame. He also mentioned how he suffered through the rigid architecture of
African masculinity. When he came to New Jersey from Ghana after losing 7 loved ones
in the same month, the nurse in his school got concerned about his mental health. She
enquired him about the same but he felt it very weird. As an African man he was always
taught to deal with his problems without expressing or processing any emotions.

The mentality of his country made him think that the term mental is associated with being
a " madman" , dirty ,dread locked , half - naked drug addict roaming around the streets.
2) .The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power from
Gabor Mate

Matè explores the power that addiction wields in his TED talk. In discussing the
lengths of addiction— from drugs to power— from the lack of love to the desire to
escape oneself, from susceptibility of the being to interior power, it’s clear that
nothing escapes.

He quotes " If the success of a doctor is to be measured by how long their patients live
then i am a failure. Because my patients die very young. They die of HIV, Hepatitis B, they
die of infection in their brains and in their spines. "

He mentions how drugs are nothing but painkillers but if it is so , then what's the cause of
their pain? Why do they need that sense of control from artificial means?

3) .Mental Health For All By Involving All from Vikram Patel

Nearly 450 million people are affected by mental illness worldwide. In wealthy
nations, just half receive appropriate care, but in developing countries, close to 90
percent go untreated because psychiatrists are in such short supply. Vikram Patel
outlines a highly promising approach — training members of communities to give
mental health interventions, empowering ordinary people to care for others.

The mental hospitals in some developing countries don't know how to treat their patients
He mentions the ways he wants to change that...

4) . The Voices In My Head from Eleanor Longdon

To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to
college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her
head started talking. Initially innocuous, these internal narrators became increasingly
antagonistic and dictatorial, turning her life into a living nightmare. Diagnosed with
schizophrenia, hospitalized, drugged, Longden was discarded by a system that didn’t
know how to help her. Longden tells the moving tale of her years-long journey back
to mental health, and makes the case that it was through learning to listen to her
voices that she was able to survive.
5) .Toward A New Understanding Of Mental Health from
Thomas Insel

Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart
disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, the director of the
National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression
and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial
reframing: for us to stop thinking about “mental disorders” and start understanding
them as “brain disorders.”
CONCLUSION

WORK DIVISIONS
SAMARTH PRAVIN SRIVASTAVA (21102095)
- THERE'S NO SHAME IN TAKING CARE OF YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

ANIRUDH GUPTA (21102105)

- THE POWER OF ADDICTION AND THE ADDICTION OF POWER

RISHABH MISHRA (21102097)

- MENTAL HEALTH FOR ALL BY INVOLVING ALL

- THE VOICES IN MY HEAD

RIJUL RAJ ( 21102108)

- TOWARD A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF MENTAL HEALTH

- EDITING