Name: 【TEDx】認識精神疾病：別再說我瘋了！ TEDxTokyo - Kathy Pike - Don't Call Me Crazy [English]
Uploaded: 2014-02-28T09:25:01.000Z
Duration: 9 min 56 s
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As we get started today  I'd like to introduce you to 17 people

each depicted here  by a circle on the screen.

and two is that they will all  commit suicide

How often is suicide associated  with mental illness?

Let's imagine that our TEDxTokyo community here

of four hundred people  represented the world population.

We know that at any point in time 20%  of the population has mental disorder.

That would be 80 people here in our TEDxTokyo community.

Now, a significant number  of those cases will be mild.

But, if we take the most severe,  the most enduring,

the most debilitating mental disorders, like schizophrenia,

major depression, bipolar disorder,  anxiety disorders,

we are still taking about  6% of the population,

Mental disorder -- it's common,  it's serious, it's global.

In the US, we have soldiers returning  from the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars.

Last year 6,500 of these veterans returned home safely

only to commit suicide when they were back.

than the total number of deaths in combat  for the US military since the two wars began.

different segment of the population, similar story.

Suicide has emerged as  the single leading cause of death

At a time when their world  should be expanding,

these women have opted to take their own lives.

And here in Japan, in the wake of the disaster of 2011,

the devastation continues to climb  in terms of psychological distress,

on mental illness  and no country is spared.

that 900,000 people with mental disorder,

almost a million people with mental disorder,  will commit suicide.

2,400 people with mental disorder will commit suicide,

including the 17 whom I introduced you to at the beginning of my talk.

In fact, seven of our 17 have already died.

So, I can imagine you saying,  "OK, I get it, it's common,

it's serious, it's global.  But it's not my problem."

But I want to challenge you on that. It is your problem, it is our problem.

Consider for a moment, the father who drinks too much,

loses his job  and can't care for his family.

Consider the mother who develops postpartum depression,

so difficult that he can't leave his room.

Or the uncle, who on a manic episode winds up in  the police station instead of at his desk at work.

Or the daughter, the friend,  whose eating disorder is so severe

she lands in the a hospital instead of on the soccer field.

And the good news is that we have treatments that work.

We have treatments that have been developed, tested and demonstrated

to help the majority of people  across the spectrum of disorders.

But it's not great news because we've got one major obstacle.

Remember I said that  if our TEDxTokyo community

24 of us would have serious mental illness?

Well, let's imagine that  you have schizophrenia

and let's imagine that you have major depression,

And now imagine that I ask you to stand and be recognized.

but that's not the case for mental illness.

with the fear that they'll be discovered.

And those feelings are a product  of the stigma of mental illness

and it is this stigma  that is the single greatest obstacle

to improving the lives of millions of people with mental disorder around the globe.

Some people don't agree with me.  They say it's funding.

But that is a smoke screen  for the stigma of mental illness,

because if mental illness were a priority,

And as long as mental illness is optional,

And the irony is that we are spending  billions and billions of dollars

every year around the globe ignoring mental illness.

in lives lost, in disability, in lost work productivity.

Some people say, it's just too complicated.

The treatments are too sophisticated, too labour intensive.

Think about the research, the technology,  the sophisticated protocols,