Mental health & Poverty: Unlocking the potential | Crick Lund | TEDxCapeTown

Crick Lund is a Principal Investigator of the Africa Focus on Intervention Research for Mental health (AFFIRM) U19 NIMH Collaborative Hub, and CEO of the Programme for Improving Mental health care (PRIME), a DFID funded research consortium focusing on the integration of mental health into primary care in five low and middle-income countries. Crick holds a BA (Hons), MA, MSocSci (Clinical Psychology), PhD, and is Professor and Director of the Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town.
Crick wants to create greater public awareness about the links between mental health and poverty, and what can be done to break the cycle of poverty and mental illness.
Crick Lund is a Principal Investigator of the Africa Focus on Intervention Research for Mental health (AFFIRM) U19 NIMH Collaborative Hub, and CEO of the Programme for Improving Mental health care (PRIME), a DFID funded research consortium focusing on the integration of mental health into primary care in five low and middle-income countries. Crick holds a BA (Hons), MA, MSocSci (Clinical Psychology), PhD, and is Professor and Director of the Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town.
Crick wants to create greater public awareness about the links between mental health and poverty, and what can be done to break the cycle of poverty and mental illness.
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[@lakeshataylor1885]

You can’t enjoy life without money so yes being broke and poor causes depression. Poverty leads to depression

[@kahlodiego5299]

Public transportation helps mental illness a great deal. When I lived in NYC for the first time in my life I could get to where ever I needed to go - just like anyone else. This took care of about 50 percent of my mental illness. I don't know why people don't get the connection. Oh well they didn't grow up poor and mentally ill. I wish USA believed in public transportation and didn't have to make life so economically hard. Oh well.

[@SandfordSmythe]

A real issue.

[@leonkituyi3935]

My Dad also does the work for poverty in what it's called international development focusing on agriculture currently

[@Natalie-justNatalie]

❤

[@mentalhealthnepal3412]

It was an excellent presentation. Is your research published/ available online? Or is there any way that we can reach out to your research?

[@roxannegeorge8436]

Very good program

[@carbocookies]

Image in the background at 9:28 ...

[@kahlodiego5299]

My depression isn't due to an accurate belief about my world. It's due to a quite accurate belief.

[@manictiger]

I think most mental illness is caused by (relative) poverty. I used to have depression. Cure? Money. I started making lots of money. Anxiety and AVPD is different. That one's caused by poor parenting. Money can't cure that one. I'm not sure if anything can.

[@BillDerBerg]

Mental illness is biological not directly caused by an environment. poverty can effect development of brains if there's no clean water hygiene or healthy food available but countless poor people live off the land are clean and have healthy diets relative to their first or second world counterparts. And mental illness isn't as prevalent in those circumstances as much as in upper class wealthy, ultra wealthy first world families which have tremendous amounts of mental illnesses in them. DNA also has lots to do with perpetuating mentally defective offspring.

[@LexesOHara]

Thank you for sharing this!!

[@a-10warthogbooyahbigbabbyb32]

Poverty and mental illness. What are your thoughts on cognitive dissonance as it directly correlates with socioeconomic status and so called mental illness or vice versa?

[@BillDerBerg]

STOP BREEDING WHEN YOU'RE POOR AND UNESTABLISHED WHY IS THAT SO DIFFICULT TO COMPREHEND?

[@kerrimchayle1213]

People who are rich are at increased risk of mental illness, and nobody knows why.