Madness - the world has it all wrong | Reshma Valliappan | TEDxShivNadarUniversity

What if schizophrenia isn’t what the books or the makers of it tell you? It’s some intellectual term coined by a western group and so what we know of it is only from their perspective. What we know of recovered stories are only from their stories not ours.
Has anyone heard about it from the very person living with it? I challenge the audience to think about the numerous stereotypes our society and civilised minds have formed - from gurus, to Mystics, to doctors, to psychologist, to parents, to the layman, to the lawyers, to the government, to every single person to define this madness that they’ve believed to be a disease of the lowest being in society. They’ve called people like me trash or waste products for a suffering no one has a cure for. Not even the best of doctors or greatest of saints.
Because everyone’s asking the wrong question.
An alien send to spread love through madness. But for human conveniences: Founder of The Red Door, Protagonist of A Drop of Sunshine, Author of memoir Fallen, Standing My Life As A Schizophrenist, Ashoka and Ink Fellow, Artist, Writer, mime artist, part time lecturer, speaker and everybody’s imaginary friend. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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