Words have superpowers: a map to healing mental illness. | Becci Fearnley | TEDxUniversityofKent скачать в хорошем качестве

Words have superpowers: a map to healing mental illness. | Becci Fearnley | TEDxUniversityofKent

Words have powers, in fact, words have superpowers! As mental illness diagnoses rise and funding from support mechanisms become reduced, more and more people are left alone to deal with the problems they encounter. Working with children and also suffering from a mental illness herself, Becci discusses the milestones to healing mental illness and how we can best support those around us through poetry and the arts. Becci Louise leads the double life of teacher-by-day, poet-by-night. Her work has been performed in London, Reading, Kent and Leicester. She is a Roundhouse Resident Artist and is often seen shouting poetry in the streets of Canterbury. At the age of 21, she suffered a pretty nasty stint of severe anxiety and depression, and has had recurrences ever since. She is not ashamed of this. She writes to heal and she writes to teach others how to heal. She wishes we, as a society, would give more space to our young people for writing, so they can heal too. 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