Mental Health in Context

a. Having viewed the introductory TED Talks presentation by comedian Ruby Wax, share your thoughts on the following.
 Ruby’s approach to highlighting the seriousness of mental health wellbeing.  Explain how Ruby has suffered from mental health stigma and misunderstanding.
 What new knowledge about mental health (psychological and/or physiological) did you learn from Ruby’s presentation?
b. About the news article titled Building labourers face high rate of suicide.
 What is your immediate response to the impact of mental health stigma, highlighted in this article?
 Are you surprised by the rates of death associated with mental health conditions in the construction industry? Why?
 What do you think may be contributing factors for the reported high rates of mental health conditions/fatalities in this industry? Why? c. In follow-up to the article Building labourers face high rate of suicide, the issues related to understanding mental health in the workplace is further explored in the SBS Insight program, Mind at Work
.  Provide a summary of what you took away from discussions involving the employees, employers and health promotion/work safe advocates