1 out of 4 people suffer from mental illness. Look around you, and chances are out of the closest 3 people, 1 of you may be suffering from mental illness. Elizabeth speaks volumes from her own experience battling mental illness and how it is not a personal problem, but a communal one for which we are all responsible to address.

Elizabeth is a junior at the University of Texas at Austin studying Chemistry. She is a pre-medical student hoping to one day run her own practice and use a combination of diet, therapy, and medicine to heal the physical and psychological wounds of her patients. She is the proud owner of her mini wiener dog Bella, who helped her heal and grow through some of her life’s toughest battles.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

An estimated 350 million people are affected by depression around the world. Some 21 million are affected by schizophrenia. Despite this considerable burden, the stigmatization that is still associated with mental illness prevents many people from seeking help. In this short video, Charlene Sunkel, from South Africa, speaks of her experience of mental health services following a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and the challenges she had to overcome in her quest for an effective treatment and understanding of her condition. Gary Seery, from Ireland, explains how sport helped him to overcome depression.

More information on mental health http://www.who.int/topics/mental_health/en/ #mentalhealth
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Broadcast live on n World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2020, the World Health Organization, for the first time ever, hosted a global online advocacy event on mental health. At this event—the Big Event for Mental Health—world leaders, mental health experts and celebrity guests joined WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to tell the world what we can all do to improve our mental health and how we can help make sure that quality mental health care is available to everyone who needs it.

Watch this video to:

learn how WHO, together with our partners, is helping improve the mental health of people in countries throughout the world;
hear from national and international leaders about why they are making mental health a priority;
hear first-hand why internationally-renowned artists have become mental health advocates and listen to their advice for those who are struggling; and
listen to critically-acclaimed musicians perform some of their most popular music.

More information:https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2020/10/10/default-calendar/the-big-event-for-mental-health
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Recorded version of the live Q&A on mental health during COVID-19, with Aiysha Malik, Mental Health expert at WHO speaking with Sari Setiogi, Head of WHO’s Social Media and Media Monitoring. The live show was broadcast on 10 March 2020.

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Join our YouTube Live Hangout with our panel:
Corrado Barbui (Verona, Italy)
Tarun Dua (WHO, Switzerland)
Roxanne Keynejad (Harvard, USA)
Graham Thornicroft (King’s College London, UK)
Andrea Cipriani (Oxford, UK)
Michael Ostacher (Stanford, USA)

The hangout will discuss a recently published systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries on the World Health Organization (WHO) mental health gap action programme (mhGAP) intervention guide. The paper will provide the starting point for wide-ranging discussion and debate related to the broad themes of disseminating research and encouraging evidence-based mental health treatment.

Paper to be discussed:
Keynejad RC, Dua T, Barbui C, et al WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide: a systematic review of evidence from low and middle-income countries Evidence-Based Mental Health
http://ebmh.bmj.com/content/early/2017/09/13/eb-2017-102750.info
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This video explains to a teenage audience three of the most chronic mental illnesses: anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder. Using a theme similar to the movie “Inside Out,” each illness is personified by a character. These characters identify the illnesses they represent, describe their prevalence, symptoms, average age of onset and how they impact daily life.

Video by Zubair Banoor, Jaskeerat Kaur, Sina Nastarani, Kritika Seth and Monica Persaud

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Depression: Overview. (2016). PubMed Health. Retrieved 18 November 2016, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072469/

Donald M. Hilty, R. (2016). A Review of Bipolar Disorder in Adults. PubMed Central (PMC). Retrieved 16 November 2016, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963467/

Generalized anxiety disorder: Overview. (2016). PubMed Health. Retrieved 17 November 2016, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072779/

NIMH » Bipolar Disorder. (2016). Nimh.nih.gov. Retrieved 17 November 2016, from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/bipolar-disorder/index.shtml

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Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is one of the major cause of Years Lived with Disability (YLD). It is extremely common among various societies and goes largely un-diagnosed due to its insidious nature and the stigma attached to its diagnosis and treatment seeker. Similar reason may apply to people with Schizophrenia and Autism. They need to be observed for about 6 months before they can be properly diagnosed. Some even goes undiagnosed at all.

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