Raising mental health awareness in Kuwait | Dalal & Alaa AlHomaizi | TEDxTeachersCollege
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. When the AlHomaizi sisters told their friends and family in Kuwait that they wanted to become psychologists, "At least you'll be called doctors," was the nicest comment they heard. In this talk the AlHomaizis share their plan for raising awareness regarding mental health in their home country of Kuwait and beyond.
As aspiring psychologists from Kuwait, Dalal & Alaa AlHomaizi have first-hand knowledge of the stigma associated with mental illness in the Middle East and are committed to ending the "Psylence" (silence regarding psychological issues) in their home country of Kuwait. The AlHomaizi sisters have founded the SPEAK campaign (Standing for Psychological Education and Awareness in Kuwait), and in 2012 collaborated with the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health during World Mental Health Day to organize a conference for the purpose of raising awareness regarding mental health issues in Kuwait. The AlHomaizis began their work in global mental health as research assistants in the division of Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and are currently active within Helen Verdeli's Global Mental Health Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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First I would like to thank you for such a SpeaK "very important one" and second, keep up the great work sisters, we need such talented people in our Beloved Country Kuwait. We are in Need for such Awareness for Mental illness.
Thank You Dalal & Alaa .
I hope I find this in an Arabic version so people get it
That was a good speech! I just knew about your campaign from this video, hope you contact more people in social media so that more people will know about you. Keep it up twins!
Bravo to both of you. Societies and their thinking change when people stand-up and be counted. Thats what you two have managed. More young people in Kuwait need to follow their passion. I was shocked when a close friend in Kuwait was suffering and the so called 'doctors' just kept giving him sleeping pills. I felt so bad for him - extremely sad.
I love Kuwait and I love the people - But some things must (and will) change. It wasn't so long ago when even in the west people with mental illness were 'put-away'.
Keep going - the only hope for Kuwait are the young generation.
اللهم بارك، فخورة فيكم زميلاتي في المدرسة، و افتخرت أكثر لم مسّكوني ملفاتكم في وزارة التعليم العالي لمّ توظفت اهناك، أشجع حملتكم قلبا و قالبا 👍
I'm so so proud of them ❤️
Proud to be a kuwaiti
Hi Ladies. I would like to commend you for speaking out about how Mental Health is a struggle for Middle Easterns. I hope that you continue with the challenge. I will help you all in speaking up from my end. Best wishes.
Beautiful!!! Very inspirational! Love it ❤️❤️