Mental Health in Context

  a. Having viewed the introductory TED Talks presentation by comedian Ruby Wax, share your thoughts on the following.  Ruby’s approach to highlighting the seriousness of mental health wellbeing.  Explain how Ruby has suffered from mental health stigma and misunderstanding.  What new knowledge about mental health (psychological and/or physiological) did you learn from Ruby’s presentation? b. About the news article titled Building labourers face high rate of suicide.  What is your immediate response to the impact of mental health stigma, highlighted in this article?  Are you surprised by the rates of death associated with mental health conditions in the construction industry? Why?  What do you think may be contributing factors for the reported high rates of mental health conditions/fatalities in this industry? Why? c. In follow-up to the article Building labourers face high rate of suicide, the issues related to understanding mental health in the workplace is further explored in the SBS Insight program, Mind at Work .  Provide a summary of what you took away from discussions involving the employees, employers and health promotion/work safe advocates