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There's no shame in taking care of your mental health - Sangu Delle

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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.

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How does the stigmatization of mental disorders affect those who are living with them? Why do you think conditions like depression, anxiety, ADHD, and others are stigmatized?


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Avatar for Şükran kılıç
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Kişin tüm hayatını etkilediği gibi dengesiz olmasına sebep olur


Avatar for Pahl Kumar
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I think conditions such as ADHD, depression and other mental health illnesses are stigmatised because of the older norms and principles wherein anyone who possessed mental health issues was considered a 'Madman'. Since so many generations have been suppressing emotions and their mental health issues, leading the upcoming generation to also suppress them. Due to the stigmatisation of mental health issues, people are detaching from their social relationships, further leading to the deterioration of their health.


Avatar for Harry Connerty
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I think conditions like depression, anxiety, ADHD, and others are stigmatized because of how we learn to handle anxiety in a society that's uncomfortable with emotions.


Avatar for Hailey Yocum
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depression, anxiety, ADHD are all sereues thing to talk about and that need to acshluy be disscust and not just talked about


Avatar for Estefania Pereiro
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I agree with my colleague that we see the mentally ill person as someone strange, and I think that makes them feel guilty. The person himself does not talk about it, and those of us who are with him too. That mixture of guilt and rejection creates the stigma. Qualities that make us human such as resistance, kindness, or sacrifice, empathy, are altered in the face of ill mental health. This makes us think that we are not human, hence the guilt and the taboo.


Avatar for Edanur Öztürk
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Who have physical ills peoples don't behave strange so much. But who have mental health problems peoples, sometimes behave strange. And this make scare to pther peoples in my opinion. But I think, we must have empathy to these peoples and if we were like this we should think about how we would like to be behaved.

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