First Nations Studies 2216F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: True Life, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Poetry Slam
1 Mar 2018
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Text title: (cid:862)ocd(cid:863) slam poetry and mental health awareness | tedxteacherscollege. Text author(s) (last name, first name): hilborn, neil. In the tedtalk, spoken by poet neil hilborn, he speaks about his personal experiences with obsessive compulsive disorder and how it has affected his life growing up. Neil became famous from his first poe(cid:373), e(cid:374)titled (cid:862)ocd(cid:863), (cid:449)here he ope(cid:374)s up a(cid:271)out ho(cid:449) li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith ocd (cid:272)a(cid:374) affe(cid:272)t the (cid:449)a(cid:455) (cid:455)ou a(cid:272)t arou(cid:374)d someone you love. Neil then talks about all of the positive feedback he got from people with depression, Ocd, or any other kind of mental disability. They appreciated the fact that he was able to talk about his disorder a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ake art out of so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that (cid:272)ould(cid:859)(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) looked at so negatively. A(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)s ha(cid:448)e asso(cid:272)iated (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal disa(cid:271)ilities (cid:449)ith su(cid:272)h (cid:374)egati(cid:448)e stig(cid:373)as. People are li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g i(cid:374) sha(cid:373)e because of their mental disability, leading their disability to define them as a person.
