Personally I don't care if her public speaking skills are bad it takes A lot of courage to talk about something like this.

Thank you Crystal for your courage to stand up and speak up in favor of people who are abused and forgotten in every way, let's stop filling court rooms and jails with mentally disabled persons let's stop paying salary to bad officials to abuse them, lets stop bad attorneys from representing them in front of judges that permit this abusive actions knowingly, thank you Crystal. 👍👍👍

I'm a 17 year old female. I got diagnosed with austism spectrum disorder, anxiety and severe depression. I got caught with a tab of LSD at school. Got suspended for 10 days and I could no longer travel to Europe with the school (cost me 5,000 dollars for this trip and I was not able to go) I became extremely depressed and I almost ended my life. I had meltdowns almost everyday after this incident. The way the cops treated me was very scary and I was over stimulating. But it's been about 2 months and I was supposed to go to court but I've had no updates. (I think it might be because my mom emailed the school about my mental health) but I'm hoping that everything will be ok. I'm now on antidepressants and I feel much better :)

Crystal you are astounding. We need more individuals like you for our CJ & Mental health systems.

Thank you for putting this out. I went through a dark year 2019 I separated with my wife because I was dealing with very heavy issues from childhood and I had abused alcohol and my meds I didn't know how to tell her when it started or anyone else I was erratic but not dangerous to others more to myself which were cause of 2 suicide attempts that landed me in the VA inpatient. I begged and cried and pleaded for her help to understand to just see me hear me and was just left on the floor because my energy was not positive and she was on a positive track. I loved her she was after all my childhood crush 23yrs we knew each other. I would beg for my family yea I bugged and pleaded to not be alone it was a hard year it was heavy and dark and lonely. I ended up getting a restraining order. And I broke Down on the sherriff's arms I was not dangerous to her our kids or step kids. It dehumanized me. This Ted talk I clicked on it for research for my nonprofit I'm a working on but wow it just hit home. When she got to what people need. I wasnt able to work because of how bad I had my anxiety and PTSD, treated humanly I dealt with being called a monster and being shut off from anyone that could help, and it left me without seeing my daughters and blamed for damaging a truck which threw me back into a dark depression. I dont want others to go through what i lived. I was denied to go back to my family my connection (my community excluded me) we can change that.. what an amazing talk!!!!

I can tell she’s really passionate about this topic. I totally agree with her❤️.

When i was in prison, the sergeant allayed some of my fears by assuring me that "everyone you see here will eventually be released back into their communities, its just a question of when", and my first thought was, "i don't have a community". We ought to be very careful how we treat others, that one unkind thing you said to someone might be the straw that breaks the camels back, an insult heaped on the top of a lifetime of abuse and neglect and unfair treatment. Before you judge someone next time, ask yourself, "what do i really know about this persons lived experience?" If your honest, you will find that you don't know anything at all about them. The world needs to learn how to forgive, how to share, how to empathize, how to respect their neighbours.

Thank you for taking the the time to post this.

A year later and this is one of the least viewed TED talks. Shows you how badly mental health issues are ignored, thank goodness I live in Canada and have systems to help those who need it.

Awesome presentation and invaluable.

Agreed! Brave I admire to be like this

So true! Thanks for speaking on this.

Am thankful that you deliver this topic..

My son lives with schizophrenia. He hurt someone during a psychotic episode. He has been held in isolation for over five months. He can not be tested for competency because he has deteriorated. He refuses to see me or take medication. He is unable to advocate for himself. My ex-husband begged a judge to commit him four days before the incident knowing my son was becoming more and more agitated and aggressive. Police were called, crisis lines were called trying to prevent anything happening and to get him help. Charges were even pressed that the DA dropped. Now he is waiting for inpatient treatment no one knows how long. We are in Texas. I have no idea how he is. Nightmare

Beautiful presentation. Thank you

Thank you..❤️💕🇺🇸

Im glad people talk. I have high functioning autism, I'm not a criminal, yet I was assaulted and left homeless by corrupt Lethbridge city police who are very uneducated and criminal themselves. Help us. They dont help, they hurt.

I found this many years ago and got interested in prisons. In my country it is common to hear that a person has died when they are in jail. It broke my heart to hear this. It was then that I started volunteering in free time and felt very good about it. Other people should do the same.

Treatment amen thank you!! 💔

YES i agree with some of what you are saying. structure obviously is important in peoples life BUT alot of criminals, mentally disturbed people or unemplyed people have issues in there brain that NEED addressing. you cant just mind over matter mental illness. alot of people have abnormal activity in their temporal love area in the brain where they can be angry or have sever anxiety. alot of people have way to much activity in the fear area of there brain the amydala and interior cingulate and that will cause sever anxiety interfering with people going for job interviews or being a part of society. people have BRAIN HEALTH ISSUES check out dr amen and his spect scans and you can see abnormal acitivity in the brain leads to mental illness. structure is good but you need to address healthy seratonin, gaba and activity in the brain first by suppliments, diet, exercise etc. people need to have there brain scanned.

I’m very well experienced in stigma and mental illness because of people who have targeted me particularly to ruin my own progress with regard to self help,brain damage and mental trauma is now my life apart from talent

well said!

Mental health and America are treated very differently than anywhere else in Europe because we care about our people

It would been better to have had a different name assigned to this Ted Talk, it is more of a discussion on just mental illness and inclusion rather than a relationship between criminal justice and mental health. It was a good video despite the misleading title however.

Awesome

Does anyone know what study she is refering to

I like this person, not many people say things like this for people like me

I love this topic. If all mankind could just be kind to one another and understand that we are not the same and not place each in a certain social group to makes us sure we fit in a type of group - It would have been such an easy much well mannered and respected world with people that has respect for each other. Yes, not to make criminals right but they also have the right as human beings to provide their explanations as to why they acted out certain crimes and such. We all should be opened minded. I'm not agreeing with what they did and saying it's right but there's a social and psychological explanation and reason to each behaviour for all crimes committed. Do you think it is better to ignore another human being for what he/she did and not giving them another chance? even if you yourself could never think in such a way to lead to criminal acts. I think ignoring for your own safety is almost selfish to the point where it could lead to more crimes committed because the human being is being classified and grouped in a certain unpleasant group and not given a fair chance to better himself/herself. I am not saying safety for you and your family against criminals is bad I'm just saying THEY WAY we the "normal" people avoid contact with them and exclude them from our social groups, not giving them fair opportunities to employment, etc. could worsen the current statistics to more criminals. I think also MENTAL HEALTH is seen as a shame still till today. You never almost see people talking openly about depression for instance as a normal occurrence that everyone at least once in their life experience. And I think the idea of keeping quiet about it and making as if it is abnormal can lead to much more psychological problems in society. Therefore I think we as individuals should make a change and talk more openly about our struggles we face mentally (emotionally) to connect with each other more openly and this is good therapy. I can make an example about what is mentioned above: I went through a depressing phase in my life when I was in high school. In my country DEPRESSION is seen as a sick person. Sick in the way : you don't fit in with normal group or you need to be booked in a mental institute. Where as I think whether some or no one wants to admit we all go through a type of depression when we feel sad or down etc. We just to scared to admit and say it openly we are depressed. And being depressed is not wrong. We all have our daily challenges and why should we not feel pressurised but this? Because we make depression abnormal {where everyone has the emotion of feeling sad, pressurised through certain situations}, people never/rarely talk about it and can lead to commitment of crime. Thus I think seeing a psychologist will help everyone to stay at a mental positive level to live in peace and harmony with one another. But at the moment people don't see that mental health as important as "money, houses, cars, clothing, food, love, etc." People feel ashamed to talk about mental health. It should be seen as something important and I feel not everyone knows the importance of it because ^ not talking about it and few going around (especially schools) .

I agree excluding people from the community hurts Hurts I agree including the mentaly Ill would benefit EVERYONE

I'm dealing with this as of right now and no help Andi was already attacked few times

Loneliness. Adversity. Deprivation.

Im what you talk. I been getting arrested its been so bad that I am a felony but haven't gotten convicted yet so trying to fight my 2 cases. I wasnt being aggressive or use high tone and still gotten arrest I'm still going to court for it and I think my lawyers r trying to use mental illness as my defense so they did a rule 20 for court and right now I starting a program called mental health resources to not let me be convited.

This conversation insists on its existence only inside my own head. That's kinda spooky. I dunno what that means. I guess the karmic clock don't break even. But I know it'll get better for others. I'm in the mean time terrified.

You know they talked about how people go on shooting Rampages and then you here later on on the news how they were mentally Disturbed but yet the cost for psychiatrist and therapy is outrageous in price we got the insurance companies claim it to be a specialist and charge $45 at least for co-pays with such a high cost how can these people get the help they need everything that's the biggest problem with the United States is the cost for healthcare especially when it comes to Mental Health if they want to solve the problem people going on Rampages killing other people that have a mental disability maybe they should change the cost for these people to get help I believe but there'd be less shootings if these people were able to get the help they need and the medication but they should be on but again even with the medication cost is just way too high the way I see it this country the United States are full of money hungry full's

I was found guilty for protesting because of my mental health n behavior.... Please help

Where can I find the research she is citing?

My caseworker isn't paying attention. It's all up to me.then they take credit

My son was discharged from treatment for missing appointments Hello He’s psychotic He’s manic Are you f’n kidding me

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I'm being told to get a job or go to jail. I hate talking face to face

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Come on people... It's time to Human!!

well, she is damn right

You're really good at making it seem like your making a change and saying things when in reality. Your concluding statement was that we shouldn't set aside our own well being and safety but somehow at the same time include them in our lives and in our society. Maybe she should explain exactly how we can include them, without putting ourselves at risk for our safety.

These are good but they're bandaids for the root issues like broken families and drugs/hedonistic cultures. Fixing broken adults is like trying to re-raise children, except now they're bigger, more dangerous and more stuck in their ways. Better to do it right the first time.

"Sometimes people get sick" so she just labeled them a sick after telling the audience to get rid of every label they can think of... lol

What about gangstalking. I’ don’t giv 3 shits what u think. I have 42 videos that is direct xx

Muh integration Wonder how much willingness would this woman have to 1nT3gRte those people with mental 111 nesses if they said or did something offensive towards her beliefs.

Fix the broken families. Get drugs off the streets. That should be the focus. Those are the origins.

Terrible public speaking skills.

she is communicating soooooooo poorly ugh