Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Mental Health for All by Involving All | Vikram Patel | TED Talks" video.

I have to say from what I have read that medicines like anti-depressents, etc, have no basis of why they work, not record of success and do not work. i think it would be a lot better to pay for people to have good lives ... like we pay for kids to get a good breakfast and lunch at school, because our industrial food system and health care system cannot deal with the results of all our other broken systems.
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Come on, the country that actually gets serious about thinking about its peoples' mental health will either take over the world very very quickly, or be attacked and destroyed immediately by the others. Making people miserable is the prime method of violence and oppression used to maintain the status quo. If people who had complaints weren't disabled in some way they would cause society to grind to a halt, this is just accepted.
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2:32 - the world health organization estimates that 4-5 hundred million people who are affected by mental illness. If we have 7 billion people on the planet that is only 1/14th of the population, and they will continued to be ignored because most of them have no money, in fact i'd go so far as to say that most of them are ill because someone took their resources, their world away from them and we call that mental illness. Remember the USSR who sent dissidents to sanitariums?
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