There's no shame in taking care of your mental health | Sangu Delle

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🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn't take care of their mental health. In a personal talk, Delle shares how he learned to handle anxiety in a society that's uncomfortable with emotions. As he says: "Being honest about how we feel doesn't make us weak -- it makes us human."

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features entrepreneur and clean water activist Sangu Dal.
0:12.2	Recorded live at TED Talent Search, Lagos, 2017.
0:19.2	Last year was hell.
0:26.6	It was my first time eating Nigerian jolov.
0:33.1	Actually, in all seriousness, I was going through a lot of personal turmoil.
0:40.0	Faced with enormous stress, I suffered an anxiety attack.
0:44.8	On some days, I could do no work.
0:48.8	On other days, I just wanted to lay in my bed and cry.
0:55.3	My doctor asked if I'd like to speak with a mental health professional
0:59.7	about my stress and anxiety.
1:03.7	Mental health?
1:05.4	I climbed up and violently shook my head in protest.
1:11.4	I felt a profound sense of shame.
1:16.5	I felt the weight of stigma.
1:21.3	I have a loving supporter family and incredibly loyal friends,
1:26.4	yet I could not entertain the idea of speaking to
1:29.7	anyone about my feeling of pain I felt suffocated by the rigid architecture of our
1:39.5	African masculinity people have real problems, Sangu. Get over yourself. The first time I had mental health,
1:50.6	I was a boarding school student, fresh off the boat from Ghana at the Peddy School in New Jersey.
1:57.3	I had just gone through the brutal experience of losing seven loved ones in the same month.
2:05.1	The school nurse concerned about what I had gone through, God bless her soul.
2:10.8	She inquired about my mental health.
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