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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

What the Joker Gets Right & Wrong About Mental Health and 7 Ways We Can Improve Ours

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Have you seen The Joker? This film fascinated me. I’ve been through moments of depression and really low-points, so I watched it from the perspective of a student of mental health. My favorite quote from the film was, “The worst part about having a mental illness is that people expect you to behave as if you don’t.” Have you ever felt this? In this episode, I want to help break the stigma of mental health and give you the tools to improve yours.

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0:00.0

For me the movie really exposed our general lack of empathy and consideration towards others

0:10.2

who are different from us or those who are mentally challenged.

0:20.5

Hey everyone, welcome back to on-purpose.

0:23.0

My name is Jay Shetty and today's podcast is all about what the Joker gets right and

0:30.6

wrong about mental health and seven ways we can improve hours.

0:34.8

Now you don't have to have seen the Joker to listen to this podcast.

0:39.5

You don't have to have wanted to watch the movie.

0:41.4

You don't have to have seen the movie already.

0:43.2

You don't have to watch it afterwards.

0:45.2

This podcast is really focused on how we can improve our mental health, how we can take

0:50.7

care of ourselves better.

0:52.3

I was just writing about this this morning.

0:54.5

I was thinking that when our body gets tired, we usually sleep.

0:59.9

But when our mind gets tired, what do we do?

1:03.5

We eat, drink, we party, we try too hard, right?

1:07.3

We stay up late looking for that entertainment.

1:09.4

We watch a show on TV or we watch some show on some digital channel like we don't rest.

1:16.1

And this is one of our biggest challenges.

1:18.4

So today I'm going to do something a little different.

1:21.0

And for those of you who listen closely, you know I absolutely love movies.

1:25.8

Like love movies I always, always have, especially movies with meaning, movies with messages,

1:33.4

movies with interesting characters with fascinating plots and deeper insights behind them.

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