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today I want to ask you two questions
what do they think when they know someone
have a mental illness and what do they think
of suicide 99 percent of this
auditorium does not know me if here
let’s put some my family friends
or co -workers describe me
I would probably tell them that I am a
person who started working from very
young that I am someone enough
stubborn as to have fulfilled
practically all the goals that I
posed in life included being today
here that at 21 years old I had traveled
all america working for different
cultures that I’m well passionate about
marketing that I have worked in the three
most important companies of the
most powerful industry in the world
that my passion has always been for art
that I read almost obsessively
and that I’ve never been afraid to say the
true
my dads who are here today
they will probably tell you that they are super
proud of everything I have achieved and
my closest friends probably
tell them that I am thay with dista
all my life and I even dared to be
triathlon and I would also tell them that I am a
person without any fear so the truth
in front
that’s what they would almost certainly tell you about
my
and probably you think that I
I am a person tremendously
egocentric coming up here altet a
tell them all this what happens is that
If they ask me I would tell them a
very different story would tell them that
If I have fulfilled my dreams, I have done
many things and has traveled the world
but I would also tell you that inside
there is an antagonistic force that
more than he’s had a life by far
privileged that I have by far the
work of my dreams and a family
spectacular many times I do not
I find a sufficient reason to
get out of my bed
I’m Maria Fernanda Guillén I have not a
but several mental illnesses and I
I tried to kill not one but two
times and to this day in certain
bad days it still seems like a
pretty convenient option I have between
other mental illness disorder
Major depressive and anxiety disorder
widespread diseases that has
accompanied for more than ten years
if you only knew my
curriculum and enumeration of achievements
personal
they would probably think that I am a
lucky person very lucky and
even a smart little but
Now that they know I have an illness
mental how does your perception change about
from my
350 million people in the world
they suffer the same illness as me in the
cause number 1 of disabilities at the level
global and unlike diseases
like cancer diabetes
AIDS hypertension and even the
deaths because of depression instead
to decrease in the last 20 years it
have increased at a dizzying rate
5 out of 20 people that we are
here they could suffer once an episode
depressed at some point in his life and
one person every 15 minutes the
life because of depression however
approximately only 30 percent of
people who suffer from depression have
access to proper treatment and this
it is not even for a lack of
resources is often for a
own denial and even by penalty of the
illness and that is that our society
tend to think that depression is only
a lot of sadness or weakness and
unfortunately for our language
we use the word depression to
describe the feeling in a child of 5
years to whose dad did not buy him the
toy that he wanted for Christmas and the
feeling of a person
find a minute to commit suicide
The truth is that no disease
mental is a subject only of emotion or of
will are diseases whose origin
has a place in our brain in that
wonderful machine occurs a process of
neuronal connection in which a neuron
connects to a neuron sees and in the
space between the two occurs the synapse
in the synapse is released in a series of
substances that are called
neurotransmitters neurotransmitters
such as dopamine or serotonin are the
responsible for controlling our
emotions and affects an imbalance in
the amount of these neurotransmitters
it can trigger certain diseases
mental problems in the case of depression and
anxiety is simply a lack of
serotonin to understand this simple
but sometimes paradigmatic concept
I want you to think that as well as a
Diabetic person is absolutely
unable to ask his pancreas that
insulin generates a depressed person
totally unable to ask his
brain that produces more serotonin is
then one of the things we learn
today mental illnesses are not
only a matter of will or of
emotions
despite understanding that there is an origin
doctor in my illness very
probably many of you are
feeling sorry at this moment that
a person so young having done
so many things and a future as
promising have to live with depression
anxiety or other mental illness
the truth is that for me
diseases are like any other
but I wonder how society believes in
what scares us so much about the
mental and mental illnesses what is
what we are so embarrassed to talk about
openly from the subject
our society stigmatized from
unmemorable times the depression to such
point that in ancient Greece to a
person was not allowed to go to war
If I was melancholic, many feel
sorry but they prefer to escape the stigma
prefer not to talk about it prefer not to
ask for help the truth is that out there
almost one million people in the world
dies every year because of suicides
linked to depression but still
we say that is not my problem the true
is that 13 years ago yes that is my
problem 13 years ago I get up all
the days with that stigma and many times
with an incomprehensible desire to die is
why today I decided to bring a
message of hope for those who do not
they have none and a wake-up call
for those who think that my disease
is a synonym of disability or of
weakness but above all for those who
what
and they think what a shame but they decide not to
do nothing about it
depression and anxiety have
various things that trigger them that
they range from genetic factors
preexisting to environmental factors
and events many times
traumatic in my case I have the
unwanted inheritance of my parents my
genetic predisposition depression and
besides the death of a friend 13 ago
years were the things that were combined
at the right time to trigger what
that would be my way next to the
mental illnesses in my life
living first in life was the
depression but then anxiety came
‘android’ solomon who is a famous
writer of the new yorker and who also
suffers one of the worst depressions in
the ones that I ‘ve never read in my life a
once in one of his interviews he said that
he could survive a month with a
serious depression because after that
month he would know that depression would happen and
that all good but that if they put
survive that same month with a
anxiety disorder he would prefer
cut the veins
and I want at this moment to be
imagine they are in the worst mountain
Russian in which they have risen in his life
try to close your eyes and imagine
that feeling of fear and forward and
adrenaline in every meter of that mountain
Russian emptiness in the stomach and the
rapid beating of your heart the
anxiety is exactly like that
feeling the nice difference is that it
feel all day every day I have
come to think that maybe that’s the
Which is why I never get on a
roller coaster
and that anxiety is a disease
so serious that usually a person who
is not receiving a treatment
adequate has three options the first
it’s sleep because it’s a way to shut up
his illness the second is to abuse
the drugs and the alcohol that is
exactly the same to self-medicate and
the third is suicide I have tried
all three throughout my life but without
However, abuse in the use of drugs
and alcohol was the most self-effect
destructive of all prove the most
of possible drugs was my way of
shut up a disease that had been
diagnosed but that I refused and about
everything grieved me in accepting that was my
mind screaming for help during
many years of my life
and he does at this point where I always
I think of my methodical way of
self-destruction through so many years
refusing to receive a treatment
appropriate and I wonder why so much
people out there commit suicide without
have even had help because I
I tried to take my life in some
point because people do not commit suicide
because he has hypertension or because he has
diabetes
today we have too many alternatives that
they range from pharmacotherapy to
psychotherapy and adequate dose of
exercise the constant company of
friends and family is always fundamental
in the process and find people who
accept the disease without stigmatizing it
is perhaps the most important work that a
person with depression needs to build
to avoid having behaviors
self-destructive
depression and anxiety teaches you
they have taught me to live they taught me that
although it sounds super cliché seriously
there is always a light in the middle of the
darkness taught me to accept to
anyone regardless of any
Barberá taught me to get up from my
bed always with a positive attitude and
a smile taught me to grow and not
I’m going to lie to you many times it hurts
think that I’m sick and that
I probably will not be all my
life our current treatments
contrary to what we think
the effects are still the best
side are frightening and many
sometimes ineffective but thanks
for living now and not 50 years ago when
they could do little or nothing for me and I hope
that our future generations
including my nephew samuel can
go back to see my current treatments and
wondering how it was possible for someone
I would survive treatments so
primitives
the best I can say to a
person who has a friend or relative
in a situation of depression is that they leave
the person simply feel the
depression and you are there with a
kiss with a hug or with your alone
presence never tire of being neither of
make that shoulder on which to lean
in the midst of those moments of darkness
do not force anything and stigmatize the
person who asks for help and is not treated
to promote that the person is all the
day in bed it’s about understanding that
it does not do it of own will
the words are often going to be
more if you do not ask them do not say yes
cry
let them cry if they sleep let them
sleep if they want a balloon hug
but above all they are present in those
few moments of light that a person in
medium of this situation you can find
where to get out of bed and walk
100 meters is exactly the same to
run a marathon always make sure
be in those 100 meters and be part of
of the infinite strength of love for those
people
what are we going to do to change the
death statistics related to the
depression let’s keep thinking that the
depression is just a lot of sadness or
We will continue to be weak
indifferent to a global problem
that each year ends with more lives there
too many alternatives so that
a person out there die from
the depression I think and I want that
all of you come out thinking here
with all these alternatives and really
what is dream and longing with all my
heart is that we learn to live and
accept a dose of madness many
Thank you
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do not
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[Music]
[Music]
today I want to ask you two questions
what do they think when they know someone
have a mental illness and what do they think
of suicide 99 percent of this
auditorium does not know me if here
let’s put some my family friends
or co -workers describe me
I would probably tell them that I am a
person who started working from very
young that I am someone enough
stubborn as to have fulfilled
practically all the goals that I
posed in life included being today
here that at 21 years old I had traveled
all america working for different
cultures that I’m well passionate about
marketing that I have worked in the three
most important companies of the
most powerful industry in the world
that my passion has always been for art
that I read almost obsessively
and that I’ve never been afraid to say the
true
my dads who are here today
they will probably tell you that they are super
proud of everything I have achieved and
my closest friends probably
tell them that I am thay with dista
all my life and I even dared to be
triathlon and I would also tell them that I am a
person without any fear so the truth
in front
that’s what they would almost certainly tell you about
my
and probably you think that I
I am a person tremendously
egocentric coming up here altet a
tell them all this what happens is that
If they ask me I would tell them a
very different story would tell them that
If I have fulfilled my dreams, I have done
many things and has traveled the world
but I would also tell you that inside
there is an antagonistic force that
more than he’s had a life by far
privileged that I have by far the
work of my dreams and a family
spectacular many times I do not
I find a sufficient reason to
get out of my bed
I’m Maria Fernanda Guillén I have not a
but several mental illnesses and I
I tried to kill not one but two
times and to this day in certain
bad days it still seems like a
pretty convenient option I have between
other mental illness disorder
Major depressive and anxiety disorder
widespread diseases that has
accompanied for more than ten years
if you only knew my
curriculum and enumeration of achievements
personal
they would probably think that I am a
lucky person very lucky and
even a smart little but
Now that they know I have an illness
mental how does your perception change about
from my
350 million people in the world
they suffer the same illness as me in the
cause number 1 of disabilities at the level
global and unlike diseases
like cancer diabetes
AIDS hypertension and even the
deaths because of depression instead
to decrease in the last 20 years it
have increased at a dizzying rate
5 out of 20 people that we are
here they could suffer once an episode
depressed at some point in his life and
one person every 15 minutes the
life because of depression however
approximately only 30 percent of
people who suffer from depression have
access to proper treatment and this
it is not even for a lack of
resources is often for a
own denial and even by penalty of the
illness and that is that our society
tend to think that depression is only
a lot of sadness or weakness and
unfortunately for our language
we use the word depression to
describe the feeling in a child of 5
years to whose dad did not buy him the
toy that he wanted for Christmas and the
feeling of a person
find a minute to commit suicide
The truth is that no disease
mental is a subject only of emotion or of
will are diseases whose origin
has a place in our brain in that
wonderful machine occurs a process of
neuronal connection in which a neuron
connects to a neuron sees and in the
space between the two occurs the synapse
in the synapse is released in a series of
substances that are called
neurotransmitters neurotransmitters
such as dopamine or serotonin are the
responsible for controlling our
emotions and affects an imbalance in
the amount of these neurotransmitters
it can trigger certain diseases
mental problems in the case of depression and
anxiety is simply a lack of
serotonin to understand this simple
but sometimes paradigmatic concept
I want you to think that as well as a
Diabetic person is absolutely
unable to ask his pancreas that
insulin generates a depressed person
totally unable to ask his
brain that produces more serotonin is
then one of the things we learn
today mental illnesses are not
only a matter of will or of
emotions
despite understanding that there is an origin
doctor in my illness very
probably many of you are
feeling sorry at this moment that
a person so young having done
so many things and a future as
promising have to live with depression
anxiety or other mental illness
the truth is that for me
diseases are like any other
but I wonder how society believes in
what scares us so much about the
mental and mental illnesses what is
what we are so embarrassed to talk about
openly from the subject
our society stigmatized from
unmemorable times the depression to such
point that in ancient Greece to a
person was not allowed to go to war
If I was melancholic, many feel
sorry but they prefer to escape the stigma
prefer not to talk about it prefer not to
ask for help the truth is that out there
almost one million people in the world
dies every year because of suicides
linked to depression but still
we say that is not my problem the true
is that 13 years ago yes that is my
problem 13 years ago I get up all
the days with that stigma and many times
with an incomprehensible desire to die is
why today I decided to bring a
message of hope for those who do not
they have none and a wake-up call
for those who think that my disease
is a synonym of disability or of
weakness but above all for those who
what
and they think what a shame but they decide not to
do nothing about it
depression and anxiety have
various things that trigger them that
they range from genetic factors
preexisting to environmental factors
and events many times
traumatic in my case I have the
unwanted inheritance of my parents my
genetic predisposition depression and
besides the death of a friend 13 ago
years were the things that were combined
at the right time to trigger what
that would be my way next to the
mental illnesses in my life
living first in life was the
depression but then anxiety came
‘android’ solomon who is a famous
writer of the new yorker and who also
suffers one of the worst depressions in
the ones that I ‘ve never read in my life a
once in one of his interviews he said that
he could survive a month with a
serious depression because after that
month he would know that depression would happen and
that all good but that if they put
survive that same month with a
anxiety disorder he would prefer
cut the veins
and I want at this moment to be
imagine they are in the worst mountain
Russian in which they have risen in his life
try to close your eyes and imagine
that feeling of fear and forward and
adrenaline in every meter of that mountain
Russian emptiness in the stomach and the
rapid beating of your heart the
anxiety is exactly like that
feeling the nice difference is that it
feel all day every day I have
come to think that maybe that’s the
Which is why I never get on a
roller coaster
and that anxiety is a disease
so serious that usually a person who
is not receiving a treatment
adequate has three options the first
it’s sleep because it’s a way to shut up
his illness the second is to abuse
the drugs and the alcohol that is
exactly the same to self-medicate and
the third is suicide I have tried
all three throughout my life but without
However, abuse in the use of drugs
and alcohol was the most self-effect
destructive of all prove the most
of possible drugs was my way of
shut up a disease that had been
diagnosed but that I refused and about
everything grieved me in accepting that was my
mind screaming for help during
many years of my life
and he does at this point where I always
I think of my methodical way of
self-destruction through so many years
refusing to receive a treatment
appropriate and I wonder why so much
people out there commit suicide without
have even had help because I
I tried to take my life in some
point because people do not commit suicide
because he has hypertension or because he has
diabetes
today we have too many alternatives that
they range from pharmacotherapy to
psychotherapy and adequate dose of
exercise the constant company of
friends and family is always fundamental
in the process and find people who
accept the disease without stigmatizing it
is perhaps the most important work that a
person with depression needs to build
to avoid having behaviors
self-destructive
depression and anxiety teaches you
they have taught me to live they taught me that
although it sounds super cliché seriously
there is always a light in the middle of the
darkness taught me to accept to
anyone regardless of any
Barberá taught me to get up from my
bed always with a positive attitude and
a smile taught me to grow and not
I’m going to lie to you many times it hurts
think that I’m sick and that
I probably will not be all my
life our current treatments
contrary to what we think
the effects are still the best
side are frightening and many
sometimes ineffective but thanks
for living now and not 50 years ago when
they could do little or nothing for me and I hope
that our future generations
including my nephew samuel can
go back to see my current treatments and
wondering how it was possible for someone
I would survive treatments so
primitives
the best I can say to a
person who has a friend or relative
in a situation of depression is that they leave
the person simply feel the
depression and you are there with a
kiss with a hug or with your alone
presence never tire of being neither of
make that shoulder on which to lean
in the midst of those moments of darkness
do not force anything and stigmatize the
person who asks for help and is not treated
to promote that the person is all the
day in bed it’s about understanding that
it does not do it of own will
the words are often going to be
more if you do not ask them do not say yes
cry
let them cry if they sleep let them
sleep if they want a balloon hug
but above all they are present in those
few moments of light that a person in
medium of this situation you can find
where to get out of bed and walk
100 meters is exactly the same to
run a marathon always make sure
be in those 100 meters and be part of
of the infinite strength of love for those
people
what are we going to do to change the
death statistics related to the
depression let’s keep thinking that the
depression is just a lot of sadness or
We will continue to be weak
indifferent to a global problem
that each year ends with more lives there
too many alternatives so that
a person out there die from
the depression I think and I want that
all of you come out thinking here
with all these alternatives and really
what is dream and longing with all my
heart is that we learn to live and
accept a dose of madness many
Thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
do not
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