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Ruby Wax: ‘Sane New World’

By Ruby Wax — 2013

Comedian and writer Ruby Wax has suffered bouts of depression throughout her life and finally made it public. She went on to study psychotherapy and neuroscience—and took a comedy show about mental illness on tour around the wards of mental health institutions. See more...

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Trained Not to Cry: The Challenge of Being a Soldier | Richard Doss | TEDxNaperville

Members and Veterans of the US Armed Forces have unacceptably high suicide rates. Why? It’s not the combat experience like one would suggest, but a much more complex issue that needs to be talked about.

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2016
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14:54

How Cancer Saved My Life—Why Crisis Is an Opportunity | Giulia Muntoni | TEDxHHL

In November 2013, Giulia found out that she had breast cancer. The following March she had a mastectomy and, by May 2014, she started chemotherapy. In our society cancer is often associated with death. But this is a story about life. For her, cancer was literally a re-birth.

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2017
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02:45

How Do You Stay Hopeful? Mitch Albom Says It’s All About Perspective

Mitch Albom, the author of the best-selling ‘Tuesdays with Morrie,’ talks about what he’s learnt about being hopeful from people he’s met who faced great adversity: his former professor Morrie Schwartz, ALS patients, and families in Haiti devastated by the earthquake in 2010.

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Mitch Albom
2012
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