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“Everyone is only a small bit mad. How most depends on where we tumble in a spectrum. How most depends on how propitious we are.†— Joshua Walters
James Duncan Davidson/TED
“Everyone is only a small bit mad. How most depends on where we tumble in a spectrum. How most depends on how propitious we are.†— Joshua Walters
James Duncan Davidson/TED
Part 3 of a TED Radio Hour part The Unquiet Mind.
About Joshua Walters’ TED Talk
Comedian Joshua Walters, who’s bipolar, walks a line between mental illness and mental “skillness.†He asks: What’s a right change between medicating idiocy away, and roving a manic corner of creativity and drive?
About Joshua Walters
Walters is a comedian, poet, teacher and performer, whose work explores language, creativity, beatboxing and madness. He incorporates elements of oral word and beatbox into his shows in a mashup of comedy, insinuate thoughtfulness and indeterminate antics. In a past dual years, Walters has achieved in theaters and universities via North America, Europe and a Middle East. His heterogeneous multiple of opening disciplines and his activity as an teacher in mental health have given him a inhabitant height and audience. In 2002, he co-founded a Depression Bipolar Support Alliance Young Adults section in San Francisco, one of a few support groups in a nation that’s privately for mentally ill immature adults. As a facilitator, Walters grown amusement to residence a theme of mental illness, reframing it as a positive. Walters speaks as a mental health educator, and has intent in mental health advocacy during conventions and in classrooms nationwide.
