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From the Ted Talk by Sangu Delle: There's no shame in taking care of your mental health
Unscramble the Blue Letters
The first time I hread "mental health," I was a boarding shoocl sedntut fresh off the boat from Ghana, at the Peddie School in New jeesry. I had just gone through the brutal experience of losing seven loved ones in the same month. The school nurse, cconrened about what I'd gone through — God bless her soul — she irnuiqed about my mental health. "Is she mental?" I thought. Does she not know I'm an African man?
(Laughter)
Like Okonkwo in "Things Fall Apart," we African men neither process nor express our eniotmos. We deal with our problems.
(Applause)
We deal with our problems. I called my brother and laughed about "Oyibo" people — white people — and their strange dasieess — depression, ADD and those "weird things." Growing up in West afcria, when people used the term "mental," what came to mind was a madman with dirty, dread-locked hair, bumbling around half-naked on the stteres. We all know this man. Our parents warned us about him. "Mommy, mommy, why is he mad?" "Drugs! If you even look at dugrs, you end up like him."
Open Cloze
The first time I _____ "mental health," I was a boarding ______ _______ fresh off the boat from Ghana, at the Peddie School in New ______. I had just gone through the brutal experience of losing seven loved ones in the same month. The school nurse, _________ about what I'd gone through — God bless her soul — she ________ about my mental health. "Is she mental?" I thought. Does she not know I'm an African man?
(Laughter)
Like Okonkwo in "Things Fall Apart," we African men neither process nor express our ________. We deal with our problems.
(Applause)
We deal with our problems. I called my brother and laughed about "Oyibo" people — white people — and their strange ________ — depression, ADD and those "weird things." Growing up in West ______, when people used the term "mental," what came to mind was a madman with dirty, dread-locked hair, bumbling around half-naked on the _______. We all know this man. Our parents warned us about him. "Mommy, mommy, why is he mad?" "Drugs! If you even look at _____, you end up like him."
Solution
- school
- streets
- inquired
- africa
- heard
- drugs
- concerned
- emotions
- jersey
- diseases
- student
Original Text
The first time I heard "mental health," I was a boarding school student fresh off the boat from Ghana, at the Peddie School in New Jersey. I had just gone through the brutal experience of losing seven loved ones in the same month. The school nurse, concerned about what I'd gone through — God bless her soul — she inquired about my mental health. "Is she mental?" I thought. Does she not know I'm an African man?
(Laughter)
Like Okonkwo in "Things Fall Apart," we African men neither process nor express our emotions. We deal with our problems.
(Applause)
We deal with our problems. I called my brother and laughed about "Oyibo" people — white people — and their strange diseases — depression, ADD and those "weird things." Growing up in West Africa, when people used the term "mental," what came to mind was a madman with dirty, dread-locked hair, bumbling around half-naked on the streets. We all know this man. Our parents warned us about him. "Mommy, mommy, why is he mad?" "Drugs! If you even look at drugs, you end up like him."
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| collocation |
frequency |
| mental health |
10 |
| mental illness |
3 |
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