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Cuts Both Ways

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The Importance of Accepting Mental Illness

Andy Dunn had a manic episode when he was 20 years old. He ignored the diagnosis and tried to shake it off, which wasn't awesome for his family or friends. "I don't remember any conversations amongst any family or friends about what had happened," he says. The tragedy of mental illness is that we conflate the illness with the identity,. It makes it so much harder to take on because you have to accept not that you have to deal with this awful thing, but that you literally are that awful thing.

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