No More Shame
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Here’s a truth: All of us know someone with mental illness, or experience it ourselves. So why are we ashamed to talk about it? Why is there a stigma about it in many communities of color? Author Bassey Ikpi is tired of the secrets and silence. And now more than ever, she says it’s time for us to get real with each other, for the sake of our collective healing.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, I am always real with you, but I'm going to tell you something really personal. |
| 0:06.9 | Mental illness runs in my family, and no one ever called it a secret, but we never talked about it, not even with each other, |
| 0:15.0 | until recently. |
| 0:16.8 | Two of my uncles, who are now deceased, suffered from mental illness, and there is not a day that |
| 0:22.4 | goes by that I don't think about how their lives |
| 0:25.2 | might have been different if we had just had a better understanding of what they were going |
| 0:29.7 | through. But I think a lot of the reasons why we're so bad at understanding is because society tells us that |
| 0:36.7 | mental illness is a personal failing, a weakness. |
| 0:41.5 | Here's a thing though, as we learn more about how the mind works, we've got to try |
| 0:46.3 | harder to understand the people we love who are suffering. I'm Tanya Mosley, and that's the topic we're taking on on this episode of Truth Be |
| 0:57.6 | Told. |
| 0:58.6 | Dear Truth Be Told. Dear Truth Be Told. Dear truth be told. |
| 1:03.0 | be told. |
| 1:04.0 | be told. |
| 1:05.0 | Dear truth be told. |
| 1:06.0 | Dear truth be told. |
| 1:07.0 | I really need your help. |
| 1:08.0 | I need your help. I need your help. I need your help. |
| 1:17.0 | Back in the 2000s, Bassie Ickby was riding high. |
| 1:27.0 | Let's get right on tour. Please give a warm deaf poetry welcome for Bashi IqP from Nigeria. |
| 1:36.0 | Bassie was a popular spoken word poet touring the country with HBO's deaf poetry jam. |
| 1:42.4 | Welcome to the land of the Soless. |
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