It's a little over a month old, but I thought it time to share this video since I've recently been thinking a lot about stigma and the politicization of mental illness...which is mostly in a negative light, a light which this man tries his best to shatter with his characteristic sharp, dry British wit.
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John Oliver on the negative stigmatization of mental illness
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