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Mental Illness Awareness Week | Mark Henick

Mark Henick is one of Canada’s most acclaimed mental health advocates. Informed by his direct experience with the mental health care system as a teen, Mark has authored commentaries on issues relating to mental health for major media outlets across Canada and the U.S. His talk at TEDx Talk ‘Why we Choose Suicide‘ had captured over a half million views, making it the most viewed Talk of the 2013 Toronto conference.

Mental Illness Awareness Week | Frank Warren

Frank Warren is the most trusted stranger in North America. He is the creator of The PostSecret Project, an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. There’s some big news happening in the world of PostSecret, including the release of ‘The World of PostSecret’ book. In addition to the artful secrets, the book is loaded with full color PostSecret postcards, explores the expanding world of PostSecret with stories, Q & As, and other images, including a peek into PostSecret headquarters.

Frank Warren: Speaking Up Against Bullying

Recently, after speaking at a college about PostSecret, a young man walked up to the stage, handed me a postcard and asked me to read it. “In high school I was bullied. A year later he died! I never got to forgive him.”
Bullying is complicated and touches too many lives. I have read secrets from girls expressing how malicious gossip can sometimes hurt more than physical abuse. Other secrets from men, both young and old, have described how bullying caused violent acts misdirected at themselves and sometimes at innocent coworkers or classmates.