My Mission to Change the Narrative of Mental Health | Glenn Close | TED
Legendary actor and mental health advocate Glenn Close is on a quest to change how we think about mental health, starting with her decision to speak out about her own family’s struggles — a brave choice considering the stigma that pervades the topic. In a sweeping conversation with TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, Close shares the inspiration behind the advocacy group she founded to combat the crisis, underscoring the transformative power of community and the critical need for comprehensive mental health care systems.
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As a person with ADHD, this is the mission I was born with!
My adopted son, Aaron committed suicide August 2017 at 19 years old.
Glenn Close is one of the reasons I still believe in hope and change❤
We are just emerging from the Dark Ages of mental health understanding. I believe so much human talent will be unlocked in the future generations if we continue this path together
Wow, I had no idea that Glen Close was a mental health advocate. I really appreciate how dedicated and passionate she is about this even when she (asaik) doesn’t suffer from it herself.
Her admiration, love and deep care for her family members and even strangers who suffer really touched my heart. It’s beautiful.
In a perfect world, mental health would be covered by public funds so that all who need it can get it, but that can also be deeply corrupted. So I guess the profit model to mental health will stand unless we can find a middle path somewhere.
Attention is vital, but medication is NOT always the answer. Especially with those who have ADHD. It takes a village, and it takes many points of view to come to the table. Thank you so much Glenn for your big heart… It's a life quest.
Aaron was found on the doorstep of a Church deceased. A woman at my church told him never to return to church. One week later he killed himself.
Say Sorry, over and over, again???
I am working on this and I got a "Sorry" button, from ZanyToys for $12.
What about meditating on "Sorry" and similar ideas, over and over, again? Tnx Mch
When I got my master's degree in Social Work I went to work in public mental health.
The people that I got to know were like everyone else.
What I came away with is that what was most appreciated is talking to someone who is not psychotic.
Assertive community treatment is fabulous for folks.
We closed all of the mental institutions… now they’re just on the streets and making life worse for everyone.
People need help and everyone else should be protected from people dealing with mental health problems.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion but sometimes empathy can be more harmful than helpful.
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Dear Glenn, You are a kind human being and the best full-fledged and a gifted actress. I watch your movies more than once. First time watching the movie and second time just watching your amazing acting in the same movie. And today, in this Tedwomen program, I met another of your beautiful faces. I have this message for everyone. When you see someone disinterested and introverted, don't get upset and don't judge too soon. Maybe he’s/she's at war with himself/herself and doesn't know what’s going on in his/her brain/ mind. stop judging people. ❤
Colossians 1:12-13
Giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins….
I applaud Ms. Close, her family, and all those who work to better educate the public on the subject of mental illness. Fear and ignorance are only conquered through education and understanding. I wish her, her family, and all those suffering directly, or through association with mental suffering, a much better future.
Great Work 👏
She will not be ignoooored
The irony of old people talking about today's stigma about mental health, they clearly haven't been on tiktok
Unfortunately, getting help for mental health issues is still too dangerous in the United States. First there is the stigma obviously, but the less obvious is that you are put on a registry that can be used to incriminate you for offenses or even have your individual rights stripped from you, and you are also subjected to a variety of pharmaceutical drugs to treat whatever affliction that a doctor or therapist says that you’re suffering from which all have a variety of their own harmful side effects. I saved my own mother’s life from psychiatric medication, she was bedridden and couldn’t go outside or pay her bills because the prescribed drugs had crippled her with fear, self-doubt, and anxiety (and this is after being put through MANY of them to find the “right ones”). I was unable to save my sister from the sleeping meds they prescribed her. I also couldn’t save my brother (an opiate and pharmaceutical drug addict) from the 17 different prescriptions they gave him when he came out of rehab. These pharmaceutical companies and the doctors that operate as their agents of destruction have been murdering tens of millions of people with their “medical treatment” with impunity (just look at the Purdue Pharmaceutical’s case). My elderly mother is down to 1 blood pressure medication and 1 ADHD medication, and is living a much more functional and full life. There needs to be a more holistic approach to the foundations of mental illnesses that involves counseling, exercise, diet, job skills, education, and community relief. Once people start struggling we need to have a brake pedal we can put on the government/corporate pressure that sends our loved ones into an early grave. Mentally ill people can’t function normally and we need to have protections for them in place that stop the tax collectors, debtors, and HOA’s from trying to make them homeless and destitute; which just adds to their problems.
Healthcare for All
“Mental health” is a catch all for different maladies, nearly all of which are a “normal” response to a “sick” society. Don’t medicate the individuals who are sensitive to the dysfunction and corruption in our communities, fix the way we behave as communities and institutions! Corporations are NOT people , hold the people running them accountable, stop the corruption of “lobbyists” padding the pockets of our government representatives (they are supposed to be representing us not the wealthy corporations and institutions) Tax the churches and the wealthy elites and put the money into healthy community spaces with lots of free fruit trees and community gardens.
Doctors/scientists have never located “mental illnesses “ in the brain, they can’t point to a location and say there, there’s depression, there’s adhd, there’s insomnia. There needs to be a new approach to how we care for this , and not from big pharma.
Glenn is the beautiful part of humanity. Dealing with mental illness is not a shame!
I have PTSD, BPD, anxiety and depression. I lost all my friends. I have never told an employee because there is still stigma that lives on. The current mental health models to treat and help people need to change.
brava
Keto diets helped me with mental health .
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TED talks has turned into crap.
'The stigma of the disease can be worse than the disease itself'. So true.
Thanks for sharing this useful content!!!
I think technology has people thinking they're suffering from mental illness when getting outdoors, real communication/ interaction would be way more effective than any medication
one of the major issue is the bonding is fallen apart. Individualism is taken over the important individual personal care.
The problem is you're just blaming the person that has a mental illness by telling them that they have a mental illness I believe we all have a little bit of mental illness in US some more than others
Mental health has become an agenda for the medical industry to make money and the government to have victims to implement V2K on. Federal agencies have an electronic network where they torture and brainwash American citizens to make them seem crazy and outcast them from their social circles. look up NSA whistleblowers on the covert electronic torture network to find the truth behind the drive to make mental health awareness more prominent in society.
The woman who is interviewing, is slurring her words. Quite badly.
The teacher said "don't come back"?!?! Isn't that discrimination? – watch @ 10:17
Wow. kudos to Glenn Close. Much Respect.