How has mental illness changed humanity?
I personally liked watching the TED video on “how metal illness changed human history” because the speaker pointed some things out in his video that I wasn’t aware first. At the beginning of the video the speaker told his audience how his parents took him to Europe at the age of 12. There his parents brought him to a cave where he would see cave paintings for the first time in his life. I personally did not know that chose case paintings were in France or in Spain. Furthermore, the speaker talked about how human evolution changed over the course of a thousand years, staring off with the Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens. I liked way the speaker explained and presented the change of human evolution because he used many different examples to bring his point across.
At one point the speaker used the word “artistic genius” in his speech. An “artistic genius” is someone who is artistic is good at drawing or painting, or arranging things in a beautiful way. Since the Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens created art at such an early stage of human evolution the speaker puts this in connection with them being “artistic geniuses”. What’s also very interesting at this point is that, …show more content…
The first fact was that mood swings are inherited and genetic, which means they run in the family. The second fact was that 5 % to 7 % of the population here in the US suffer from mood swings. The third fact was that mood swings are periodic, which mean they reoccur. Finally, the speaker pointed out that mood swings are caused by malfunctions in our brains. The reason why I thought it was great that the speaker pointed out those four facts was because I’m sure many people weren’t aware of these facts, plus with the amount of people that suffer from mood swings I’m sure many people could relate to what the speaker had to tell them about mood
I personally liked watching the TED video on “how metal illness changed human history” because the speaker pointed some things out in his video that I wasn’t aware first. At the beginning of the video the speaker told his audience how his parents took him to Europe at the age of 12. There his parents brought him to a cave where he would see cave paintings for the first time in his life. I personally did not know that chose case paintings were in France or in Spain. Furthermore, the speaker talked about how human evolution changed over the course of a thousand years, staring off with the Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens. I liked way the speaker explained and presented the change of human evolution because he used many different examples to bring his point across.
At one point the speaker used the word “artistic genius” in his speech. An “artistic genius” is someone who is artistic is good at drawing or painting, or arranging things in a beautiful way. Since the Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens created art at such an early stage of human evolution the speaker puts this in connection with them being “artistic geniuses”. What’s also very interesting at this point is that, …show more content…
The first fact was that mood swings are inherited and genetic, which means they run in the family. The second fact was that 5 % to 7 % of the population here in the US suffer from mood swings. The third fact was that mood swings are periodic, which mean they reoccur. Finally, the speaker pointed out that mood swings are caused by malfunctions in our brains. The reason why I thought it was great that the speaker pointed out those four facts was because I’m sure many people weren’t aware of these facts, plus with the amount of people that suffer from mood swings I’m sure many people could relate to what the speaker had to tell them about mood