Stop the Stigma: Why it's important to talk about Mental Health | Heather Sarkis | TEDxGainesville

[brandonshaw]

Mental Health needs to more prioritized

[deborahberry]

World mental health day needs to be prioritised and marketed to its fullest capabilities worldwide

[hellokitty_kitty]

I applaud her on the delivery of this speech! As someone who’s dealing with a mental illness, it’s great to see some light shed on how little people talk about it. ❤❤❤

[ha-tqys]

it's painful to see how this video was posted 2 years ago and yet the views can't even reach a thousand or even a million. we must also shed light into the topic of mental health for it affects a lot of people.

in line with the world's mental health day, i hope u know that you are valid and you are not alone. even tho i am only a stranger i also do hope that you will win whatever silent battle you have going on inside you. i know you can do it.

[Bluepigeonn]

To everyone reading this struggling with mental health issues, its going to be alright. You are going to be ok. Don't beat yourself up too much about it. Don't let anyone tell you you lack anything or that you're less than enough.

[mangantasy]

I have several serious mental and psychosomatic health issues and currently I am in such a bad shape and fail dealing with them that I even might lose my job because of it. At the same time I am afraid to go back to work because after "not functioning any more" for so long like I did before, I could not hide any more. So now my collegues and chefs learned about parts of it. They have to have questions, and I am terrified about their questions, about having to tell, about being treated In the end the fear of the stigma is added to all the weight and pain of the issues themselves (bringing back the panick attacks I thought I had overcome) and it just never stops hurting even more.
That's why yes, I can't agree more that there can't be enough attempts to point these stigmata out in order to fight them.

[oftenwrong.]

I dealt with depression years back and you couldn’t tell anyone for fear of being labeled crazy. It’s a far cry from crazy but people make you feel like a leper

[tatyanabailey-merkulova]

It is an interesting topic, thanks to Heather Sarkis for bringing this up. I agree with the speaker that mental health is very stigmatized in our society and honestly, I do not see how it can be changed soon. Mental health looks like an overly complicated issue because it would not be easy to simply “turn off” this stigma in the majority if not all people. I have many stigmas too that would not go away easily and unconsciously I still act on many of them.
Heather Sarki brought good point I never thought about how much we bring this stigma to social media, TV, and movies, and misrepresent these horrifying relationships between mental illnesses and craziness, violence, and aggression. And it is hard to believe we are ever going to stop making these kinds of movies. It is sad that this is part of our entertainment while some people suffer watching it because they see themselves as “crazy monsters, ” convinced that this is how other people see them. This is a misinterpretation of the issue and leads us to the wrong judgment of others, fear them and turn our backs on them. Everybody has the right to seek good health for themselves, but I understand why sometimes people would be afraid to go to the doctor and talk about their mental problems because they don’t want extra emotional pressure from feelings that the doctor might judge them.
I am a second-year medical student, and we learned about how complicated the brain is. At the same time, science has stepped forward a great deal and most mental issues can be taken care of, now we can help people with various mental illnesses and give them hope to get their life back, improve their quality, and enjoy every moment of it. When doctors can show that they care with sincerity about patients' mental health and invite patients to be open and trustful, the patients can overcome their fear and be able to receive the care they need. Hopefully, their good examples can be shared with friends and family who also can get the courage to ask for help. And the same can be done with doctors, who can share their skills and experiences on how not to be judgmental and how to invite patients to be open.
This is important that we address this issue because like the speaker said the number of cases does not become smaller, they are growing. I also liked the suggestion that we need to learn to look at the person and not accentuate our attention on their diagnosis, in the end, we are all not so different and we never know if or when a similar problem can happen to us, taking away from us our happy place.

[wellbodisalone]

Remember that, eventually. everything is going to be alright. The battle against stigma will always be there.

[missdanice]

Stop the stigma and embrace the reality that mental health is as important as physical health

[sainthermanguildfoundation]

You hit it right. Everyone needs to join the fight against stigmatisation. Saint Hermanguild foundation joins.

[Must-C]

The current values in our society and the kind of negative vacuum that is created artificially and leads to mental illness.
I had a breakthrough in understanding of many things after watching The documentary The IMPACT. I'd love to hear what Ms Heather thinks about this movie. So many factors that were never taken into consideration are described in detail there... Just shocking! The best documentary I've ever seen, heals my wounds and answers a lot of questions

[AksheeBatra]

All souls have some bandaged moments and sometimes one needs medical help to heal them up❤️

[jadedjene]

RIP Ms. Heather🥺 she helped me, personally ❤

[babe]

She sounds like she's about to cry. I always feel like crying when I talk abt my mental health so I'd rather not talk abt it to ppl who won't understand bc it makes me even more sad.

[vwgzjyf]

It’s crazy what’s stigmatized now and what isn’t, if you know what I mean.

[flaviaatugonza]

Thank you MUM. This was well presented.

[sashajones]

She is filling me with anxiety and making me shake and my heart palpitate. I am out of here! Best of luck.

[gen-x-zeke]

It's hard for me to tell my daughter that she's going to see something, but not even realize it. It really throws us both off and then we go quiet.

[alkasoli]

My father veda prakash is a mental health patient too...now he is not accepting his own illness..say things which are so unreal

I accept patients take some time to accept the blunders or mistakes they have done...ee aarante ammakku praanthu pidichal kaanan nalla chellannu..aa chindhagathi mattannam

When you are sick, what ever you do it is not your mistake

But in case of my father...he drinks alcohol now which I completely object... alcohol, smoking, drugs make matters worse