[Music]
[Applause]
before starting with the talk I request
you all to kindly look around and
observe the things you see observe the
people you see can you take a few
seconds to make those observations thank
you now I request you all to kindly
close your eyes and think about those
observations think about the people you
just saw what they are doing what they
are wearing what color they are wearing
where are they right now think if you
noticed something weird with this I
request you all to kindly open your eyes
thank you
now with all these thoughts plunging in
your head what do they tell you let the
things you just saw or observed are not
there that the person you just saw the
things the person is involved in the
color the clothes the person is wearing
are all delusions and you are
hallucinating this is exactly what
schizophrenia does you hallucinate you
see and feel things which are not there
which are not true you in fact hear
voices inside which are there to control
you obstruct you and order you now
before talking more about schizophrenia
I would like to go back and I read a
story about schizophrenia through a
child’s lens a child who has as many
errors old as the number of letters in
this word she was 13 years old she
witnessed schizophrenia probably at the
age where she just couldn’t pronounce
the word properly but was also complete
the unaware about it so she made this
eeriness back when she just completed
her eighth standard everything was
sorted till the time something strange
happened she saw her mother incessantly
shouting at one of the neighbors now
this was something unusual and strange
because her mother was a soft-spoken
lady little did she know that it was
schizophrenic who is going to change her
mother’s behavior entirely but well
after this incident she saw drastic
change in the behavior of the neighbors
the neighbors used to make sure that
whenever her mother used to be out for a
walk they either smoked at her or gossip
at her face the girl the mother and the
family did not know that this was just
the beginning
tsunami might have hit her country back
in 2004 but it hit the girls family in
2008 things started worsening at the
blink of an eye now after this the
girl’s family shifted to five different
places to find a peaceful and acceptable
climate because they were completely
unaware about the fact that the
embarrassment they were facing each
second voice because of the disaster
that was occurring in her mother’s brain
it was killing her mother’s sanity and
that was killing her and her family now
imagine girl who’s 13 years old and I’m
laying emphasis on this age frequently
because at this age a lot of hormonal
changes occur but with her it wasn’t
just that it was also her temperaments
which started fluctuating and it was not
because she was not selected as mother
mary in one of the Christmas events back
in school but because her mother was
constantly labeled and targeted by her
surroundings for
any shouting in the public areas or
trying heavily it was also not because
her classmates used to make fun of her
oily hair but because some random man
uncle tells his wife that stay away from
this lady because she is psychotic
this was also not because the girl used
to miss out on a lot of her friend’s
birthday parties but because the family
and the gold chose to avoid socializing
because of the fear that what if some
color or some person or some activity
triggers her mom’s unstability
now here comes the fun fact the favorite
place of the girl came out to be her
school she used to be super happy in the
morning while waiting for a water to
come and the graph of her happiness
lowered down as a lunchtime approached
weekdays used to fascinate her but
weekends and holidays scare her she even
dreamt planned and implemented escapism
several times but unfortunately or
fortunately was never able to succeed
things started intensifying brutally
when even the strangers passing by the
house all the noises coming from the
neighbor’s house used to trigger her
mother it triggered her in a way that
she started feeling that everything
around her including noises the
strangers the neighbors and even the
family members are there to control her
harm her hurt her demean her so much so
that she started making her children eat
and sometimes even study in the dark so
that no one could harm her children this
took her like four years to come down to
this gruesome level but there was still
some little shine of Hope even then the
13 year old girl tried picture izing
what her mother used to talk about how
she used to feel inside
and analyze the entire situation from
the other side of the lens from her
mother’s links she was delusional enough
to believe that there is a word that
exists which her mother used to talk
about and the best thing to do was to
make her believe that she believes and
she did that she did that for four years
and it somehow made her mother
relatively calm now after four years of
struggling with all of this
a psychiatrist finally intervened and
fortunately enough it wasn’t just the
medication but also the strong willpower
of the mother to get better for her
husband and the children that worked
magically it was a miracle for the girl
to see her mother coming back to
normalcy within months of a treatment
and that was the point well where the
family started living and embracing the
lies at each moment those four years
taught typical life lessons to the girl
and made her what she is today initially
and to be honest there were a lot of
points but the girl used to feel that
she’s missing out on her own needs
emotions feelings and interests that she
is completely unfocused towards her own
life and desires
sometimes she used to feel sad and
agitated especially at the moments when
she saw her friends getting pampered and
kissed by their mothers but it was later
that she realized that those four years
actually made her independent Junoon
empathetic and most importantly brave as
Mary Tyler says you can’t be brave if
you have only had wonderful things
happen to you as you guys might might
have assumed by now that 13-year old
but this story exposes us to for
hardcore realities one lack of awareness
among people on mental health 2 stigma
attached to consulting a psychiatrist
like you guys know that it took us four
years to meeting a psychiatrist three
very important the mental disorder just
doesn’t affect the sufferer but the
entire family and for lack of empathy in
society towards such people and their
situations now coming back to answering
what schizophrenia is schizophrenia is a
psychosis where your mind doesn’t allow
you to agree with the reality it affects
how you think and behave you get into a
delusion that people around you are
there to harm you control you demean you
there are a total of seven types in
schizophrenia
my mother had paranoid schizophrenia
people specifically with the
schizophrenia are unreasonably
suspicious about others now studies
suggest that these might be the reasons
of schizophrenia one genetic
predisposition basically it means that
you guys don’t have a choice it’s like
going to the birthday parties and having
those return gifts which we don’t like
but we have it environmental factors
like traumatic childhood experiences and
extensively stressful situation during
convincing substance abuse like cocaine
and cannabis there are a total of three
neurotransmitter a transmitters dopamine
specially if found an excessive amount
in your brain results in schizophrenia
now that was the main question what
should we do on our part so as to create
a space which allows just the people
suffering from mental disorder but also
their families too
accepted and respected one be empathetic
towards such people and their situation
each and every action performed by us
said some sort of example somewhere
according to social learning theory
people learn from each other
they learn by observing each other’s
behavior then extracting information out
of that behavior and ultimately making
decisions based on that behavior the
reason why I took up two fellowship
programs or strongly because I wanted a
direct hands-on interaction with the
children where I try is che to set a
kind example either by making them think
on what would they do to protect Syria
or by making them differentiate between
a good person and a bad person rather
than targeting or labeling some religion
or a group to be conscious about your
language refrain yourself from using
words like bubble idiot this family is
such a pain why don’t they ship to an
asylum because this affects the patient
and their families and the worst thing
it worsens the condition of the patient
3 treat mental illness same as physical
illness we should care and support
people suffering from mental disorder as
much as we do with the ones suffering
from cancer or a heart disease educate
yourself to detach yourself from stigma
if you find someone acting weird like
shouting in the public or crying heavily
or fearing the Lord try understanding
their problem it will do two things one
the person and the family will feel
empowered that someone is there to
support them and second you are
contributing your bit in raising
awareness towards mental health and also
making psychiatric help easily
accessible and approachable last
we talk and discuss openly on mental
health it solves the other four purposes
instantly so from now let’s be a little
more aware and humane
let’s make informed and empathetic
choices let’s display actions and set
examples which make our children not
just educated but understanding human
beings because according to social
learning theory you never know
someone somewhere might be following you
observing you idolizing you believing
you make sure you set the right example
because if I at the tender age of 13 and
and lastly remember this don’t be
ashamed to share your story just like I
did thank you [Applause]
[Applause]
before starting with the talk I request
you all to kindly look around and
observe the things you see observe the
people you see can you take a few
seconds to make those observations thank
you now I request you all to kindly
close your eyes and think about those
observations think about the people you
just saw what they are doing what they
are wearing what color they are wearing
where are they right now think if you
noticed something weird with this I
request you all to kindly open your eyes
thank you
now with all these thoughts plunging in
your head what do they tell you let the
things you just saw or observed are not
there that the person you just saw the
things the person is involved in the
color the clothes the person is wearing
are all delusions and you are
hallucinating this is exactly what
schizophrenia does you hallucinate you
see and feel things which are not there
which are not true you in fact hear
voices inside which are there to control
you obstruct you and order you now
before talking more about schizophrenia
I would like to go back and I read a
story about schizophrenia through a
child’s lens a child who has as many
errors old as the number of letters in
this word she was 13 years old she
witnessed schizophrenia probably at the
age where she just couldn’t pronounce
the word properly but was also complete
the unaware about it so she made this
eeriness back when she just completed
her eighth standard everything was
sorted till the time something strange
happened she saw her mother incessantly
shouting at one of the neighbors now
this was something unusual and strange
because her mother was a soft-spoken
lady little did she know that it was
schizophrenic who is going to change her
mother’s behavior entirely but well
after this incident she saw drastic
change in the behavior of the neighbors
the neighbors used to make sure that
whenever her mother used to be out for a
walk they either smoked at her or gossip
at her face the girl the mother and the
family did not know that this was just
the beginning
tsunami might have hit her country back
in 2004 but it hit the girls family in
2008 things started worsening at the
blink of an eye now after this the
girl’s family shifted to five different
places to find a peaceful and acceptable
climate because they were completely
unaware about the fact that the
embarrassment they were facing each
second voice because of the disaster
that was occurring in her mother’s brain
it was killing her mother’s sanity and
that was killing her and her family now
imagine girl who’s 13 years old and I’m
laying emphasis on this age frequently
because at this age a lot of hormonal
changes occur but with her it wasn’t
just that it was also her temperaments
which started fluctuating and it was not
because she was not selected as mother
mary in one of the Christmas events back
in school but because her mother was
constantly labeled and targeted by her
surroundings for
any shouting in the public areas or
trying heavily it was also not because
her classmates used to make fun of her
oily hair but because some random man
uncle tells his wife that stay away from
this lady because she is psychotic
this was also not because the girl used
to miss out on a lot of her friend’s
birthday parties but because the family
and the gold chose to avoid socializing
because of the fear that what if some
color or some person or some activity
triggers her mom’s unstability
now here comes the fun fact the favorite
place of the girl came out to be her
school she used to be super happy in the
morning while waiting for a water to
come and the graph of her happiness
lowered down as a lunchtime approached
weekdays used to fascinate her but
weekends and holidays scare her she even
dreamt planned and implemented escapism
several times but unfortunately or
fortunately was never able to succeed
things started intensifying brutally
when even the strangers passing by the
house all the noises coming from the
neighbor’s house used to trigger her
mother it triggered her in a way that
she started feeling that everything
around her including noises the
strangers the neighbors and even the
family members are there to control her
harm her hurt her demean her so much so
that she started making her children eat
and sometimes even study in the dark so
that no one could harm her children this
took her like four years to come down to
this gruesome level but there was still
some little shine of Hope even then the
13 year old girl tried picture izing
what her mother used to talk about how
she used to feel inside
and analyze the entire situation from
the other side of the lens from her
mother’s links she was delusional enough
to believe that there is a word that
exists which her mother used to talk
about and the best thing to do was to
make her believe that she believes and
she did that she did that for four years
and it somehow made her mother
relatively calm now after four years of
struggling with all of this
a psychiatrist finally intervened and
fortunately enough it wasn’t just the
medication but also the strong willpower
of the mother to get better for her
husband and the children that worked
magically it was a miracle for the girl
to see her mother coming back to
normalcy within months of a treatment
and that was the point well where the
family started living and embracing the
lies at each moment those four years
taught typical life lessons to the girl
and made her what she is today initially
and to be honest there were a lot of
points but the girl used to feel that
she’s missing out on her own needs
emotions feelings and interests that she
is completely unfocused towards her own
life and desires
sometimes she used to feel sad and
agitated especially at the moments when
she saw her friends getting pampered and
kissed by their mothers but it was later
that she realized that those four years
actually made her independent Junoon
empathetic and most importantly brave as
Mary Tyler says you can’t be brave if
you have only had wonderful things
happen to you as you guys might might
have assumed by now that 13-year old
but this story exposes us to for
hardcore realities one lack of awareness
among people on mental health 2 stigma
attached to consulting a psychiatrist
like you guys know that it took us four
years to meeting a psychiatrist three
very important the mental disorder just
doesn’t affect the sufferer but the
entire family and for lack of empathy in
society towards such people and their
situations now coming back to answering
what schizophrenia is schizophrenia is a
psychosis where your mind doesn’t allow
you to agree with the reality it affects
how you think and behave you get into a
delusion that people around you are
there to harm you control you demean you
there are a total of seven types in
schizophrenia
my mother had paranoid schizophrenia
people specifically with the
schizophrenia are unreasonably
suspicious about others now studies
suggest that these might be the reasons
of schizophrenia one genetic
predisposition basically it means that
you guys don’t have a choice it’s like
going to the birthday parties and having
those return gifts which we don’t like
but we have it environmental factors
like traumatic childhood experiences and
extensively stressful situation during
convincing substance abuse like cocaine
and cannabis there are a total of three
neurotransmitter a transmitters dopamine
specially if found an excessive amount
in your brain results in schizophrenia
now that was the main question what
should we do on our part so as to create
a space which allows just the people
suffering from mental disorder but also
their families too
accepted and respected one be empathetic
towards such people and their situation
each and every action performed by us
said some sort of example somewhere
according to social learning theory
people learn from each other
they learn by observing each other’s
behavior then extracting information out
of that behavior and ultimately making
decisions based on that behavior the
reason why I took up two fellowship
programs or strongly because I wanted a
direct hands-on interaction with the
children where I try is che to set a
kind example either by making them think
on what would they do to protect Syria
or by making them differentiate between
a good person and a bad person rather
than targeting or labeling some religion
or a group to be conscious about your
language refrain yourself from using
words like bubble idiot this family is
such a pain why don’t they ship to an
asylum because this affects the patient
and their families and the worst thing
it worsens the condition of the patient
3 treat mental illness same as physical
illness we should care and support
people suffering from mental disorder as
much as we do with the ones suffering
from cancer or a heart disease educate
yourself to detach yourself from stigma
if you find someone acting weird like
shouting in the public or crying heavily
or fearing the Lord try understanding
their problem it will do two things one
the person and the family will feel
empowered that someone is there to
support them and second you are
contributing your bit in raising
awareness towards mental health and also
making psychiatric help easily
accessible and approachable last
we talk and discuss openly on mental
health it solves the other four purposes
instantly so from now let’s be a little
more aware and humane
let’s make informed and empathetic
choices let’s display actions and set
examples which make our children not
just educated but understanding human
beings because according to social
learning theory you never know
someone somewhere might be following you
observing you idolizing you believing
you make sure you set the right example
because if I at the tender age of 13 and
and lastly remember this don’t be
ashamed to share your story just like I
did thank you [Applause]
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