Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

And as you can see virtually 30 of all disabilities from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders or neuro psychiatric syndromes.

He's definitely the star of my show.

Elyn, you don't really understand

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

We think there's a future to this.

I feel like i'm going clinically insane.

Really?

Anders Breivik is merely evil.

90 of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable and treatable mental illness at the time of their death.

It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Head Case

His real name is David Vincent.

Do you think you might like to heal from your childhood?

The World Health Organization estimates that there are nearly four to five hundred million people

So would I take the pill? In an instant.

In a couple of minutes, I'll tell you about some of those results.

He might be, aside from a single medical incident that delayed his career

Psychotic episode?

Secondly, drug companies are not going to develop really sophisticated psychoactive drugs.

In Mesoamerica, there used to be neurosurgery, and there were these neurosurgeons that used to treat patients.

We need to invest more resources into research and treatment of mental illness.

So, what are the solutions?

look a bit astonished by that number, but consider for a moment the incredible diversity of mental illnesses, from autism and intellectual disability in childhood, through to depression and anxiety, substance misuse and psychosis in adulthood, all the way through to dementia in old age, and I'm pretty sure that each and every one us present here today can think of at least one person, at least one person, who's affected by mental illness in our most intimate social networks.

About 80 of the body's immune cells reside in the gut, and immune abnormalities contribute to several neurological disorders.

What are you anyway? An analyst or a patient?

The mental health of my patients...

Psych... mental disorders.

Even in this state, what he accurately described as acutely and forwardly psychotic,

We don't know how many kids died last week in any of those countries.

But they thought that, if you had a neurologic or psychiatric disease, it must be because you are possessed by an evil spirit.

The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness.

So let me share some final thoughts.

They make up a small percentage of the population, but they make up a large percentage of the people in jail, the people who are addicted, the people who are mentally ill, the people who commit suicide.

I think we're looking at some kind of psychosis.

What I rather wish to say is that the humanity we all share is more important than the mental illness we may not.

In their final years, Jim and Shirley faced cancers, fractures, infections, neurological illness.

In fact, until very recently, and I'm sure some people still hold it as a view, that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe.

Imagine you stayed there, stuck there, in that narrow, dark place.

There were some sites where one percent of all the skulls have these holes, and so you can see that neurologic and psychiatric disease is quite common, and it was also quite common about 7,000 years ago.

In fact, I've managed to stay clear of hospitals for almost three decades, perhaps my proudest accomplishment.

My mind... to your mind.

My mind to your mind.

My mind...to your mind.

It's also a very intellectually stimulating place, and occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.