ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ruby Wax - Comedian and Mental Health Activist
Ruby Wax is a loud, funny woman -- who spent much of her comedy career battling depression in silence. Now her work blends mental health advocacy and laughs.

Why you should listen

Winston Churchill called it "the Black Dog" -- a depression that settled over him and drained the flavor from life. Ruby Wax knows the Black Dog well; throughout the '80s and '90s, during a flourishing career as a brash comedian and interviewer in the UK, it trotted at her heels, even while she was interviewing the Duchess of York and sorting through Imelda Marcos' shoes.

After taking a timeout to learn how to manage the condition, Wax produced a stand-up comedy show called "Losing It" that directly addresses her mental health experiences, hilariously but powerfully. And she's started up a new social network called the Black Dog Tribe, which offers a community and support to people with depression. Meanwhile, she's working on her Master's in cognitive therapy.

Also, this year, Ruby was honored as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her mental health work.

As she says: "I've always said to myself, if you've got a disability, use it." Read our Q&A with >>

Ruby is also a visiting professor at The University of Surrey.

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TEDGlobal 2012

Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness?

Ruby Wax: Šta je tako smiješno u mentalnim oboljenjima?

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Bolesti tijela prikupljaju simpatije, kaže komičarka Ruby Wax - osim mozga. Zašto je to tako? Uz sjajnu energiju i humor, Wax, kojoj je dijagnosticirana klinička depresija prije deset godina, nas poziva da se prestane sa žigosanjem mentalnih bolesti.
- Comedian and Mental Health Activist
Ruby Wax is a loud, funny woman -- who spent much of her comedy career battling depression in silence. Now her work blends mental health advocacy and laughs. Full bio

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One in fourčetiri people sufferpatiti from some sortsortiraj of mentalmentalno illnessbolest,
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ima neko mentalno oboljenje,
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so if it was one, two, threetri, fourčetiri, it's you, sirgospodine.
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recimo jedna, dvije, tri, četiri,
to ste vi gospodine.
00:24
You. Yeah. (LaughterSmijeh)
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Vi. Da.
(smijeh)
00:25
With the weirdčudno teethzubi. And you nextsledeći to him. (LaughterSmijeh)
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Sa čudnim zubima. I vi do njega.
(smijeh)
00:29
You know who you are.
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Znate vi ko ste.
00:30
ActuallyZapravo, that wholecjelina rowred isn't right. (LaughterSmijeh)
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Zapravo, čitav taj red nije u redu.
(smijeh)
00:32
That's not good. HiBok. Yeah. RealPravi badloše. Don't even look at me. (LaughterSmijeh)
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To nije dobro. Zdravo. Da. Veoma loše.
Nemojte me ni gledati. (smijeh)
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I am one of the one in fourčetiri. Thank you.
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Ja sam jedna od one jedne u četiri.
Hvala vam.
00:42
I think I inheritnaslijediti it from my mothermajka, who,
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Mislim da sam to naslijedila
od moje majke, koja,
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used to crawlpuzi around the housekuća on all foursčetvorke.
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je puzala po kući četveronoške.
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She had two spongesspužve in her handruka, and then she had two
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Imala je dvije spužve na rukama, i dvije
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tiedvezani to her kneeskolena. My mothermajka was completelypotpuno absorbentkoja upija. (LaughterSmijeh)
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zavezane na koljenima.
Moja majka je sve upijala. (smijeh)
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And she would crawlpuzi around behindiza me going,
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Puzala bi za mnom i ponavljala:
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"Who bringsdonosi footprintsotisaka stopala into a buildingzgrade?!"
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''Ko još hoda po zgradi?''
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So that was kindkind of a cluetrag that things weren'tnisu right.
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To je zapravo bio znak
da nešto nije u redu.
01:04
So before I startpočnite, I would like to thank
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Prije nego što počnem,
želim da se zahvalim
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the makersproizvođača of LamotrigineLamotrigin, SertralineSertralin, and ReboxetineReboxetine,
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tvorcima Lamotrigina,
Sertralina i Reboxetina,
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because withoutbez those fewnekoliko simplejednostavno chemicalshemikalije, I would not be verticalvertikalno todaydanas.
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bez tih prostih hemikalija,
ja danas ne bi bila na nogama.
01:19
So how did it startpočnite?
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Kako je počelo?
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My mentalmentalno illnessbolest -- well, I'm not even going to talk about my mentalmentalno illnessbolest.
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Moja mentalna bolest
-- pa o njoj neću ni govoriti.
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What am I going to talk about? Okay.
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O čemu ću govoriti? U redu.
01:30
I always dreamtsanjala that, when I had my finalfinale breakdownslom,
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Stalno sam sanjala
da će se moj konačni nervni slom
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it would be because I had a deepduboko KafkaesqueKafkijanska
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desiti zbog dubokog kafkijanskog
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existentialistegzistencijalističke revelationotkrovenje,
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egzistencialnog otkrivenja,
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or that maybe CateCate BlanchettBlanchett would playigraj me and she would winpobijediti an OscarOscar for it. (LaughterSmijeh)
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ili da će me Cate Blanchett glumiti
i da će osvojiti Oskara za to. (smijeh)
01:44
But that's not what happeneddogodilo se. I had my breakdownslom
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Ali to se nije desilo.
Nervni slom sam doživjela
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duringtokom my daughter'sćerka sportssport day.
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u toku sportskog dana u školi moje kćerke.
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There were all the parentsroditelji sittingsedenje in a parkingparking lot
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Svi roditelji su sjedili na parkingu,
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eatingjesti foodhrana out of the back of theirnjihova carauto -- only the Englishengleski --
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jeli su hranu iz gepeka -- samo Englezi --
01:57
eatingjesti theirnjihova sausageskobasice. They lovedvoleo theirnjihova sausageskobasice. (LaughterSmijeh)
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jeli su svoje kobasice.
Voljeli su svoje kobasice. (smijeh)
02:03
LordGospodin and LadyDama RigorStrogost MortisMortis were nibblinggrickanje on the tarmacasfalt,
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Lord i lejdi Mrtvačka Ukočenost
nabadali su sa asfalta,
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and then the gunpištolj wentotišao off and all the girliescurice startedzapočet runningtrčanje,
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začuo se pištolj
i sve djevojke su počele trčati,
02:10
and all the mummiesmumije wentotišao, "RunPokrenuti! RunPokrenuti ChlamydiaKlamidija! RunPokrenuti!" (LaughterSmijeh)
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a mame su vikale:
''Trči! Trči Klamidija! Trči!'' (smijeh)
02:15
"RunPokrenuti like the windvjetar, VerucaVeruca! RunPokrenuti!"
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''Trči poput vjetra, Veruca! Trči!''
02:19
And all the girliescurice, girliescurice runningtrčanje, runningtrčanje, runningtrčanje,
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I sve djevojčice su
trčale, trčale, trčale,
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everybodysvi exceptosim for my daughterćerka, who was just standingstojeći
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sve osim moje kčerke,
koja je stajala
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at the startingpočinjati lineline, just wavingmahanje,
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na startu, i mahala,
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because she didn't know she was supposednavodno to runtrči.
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jer nije znala da treba da trči.
02:30
So I tookuzela to my bedkrevet for about a monthmesec, and when I wokeprobudio se up
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Završila sam u krevetu na oko
mjesec dana, i kada sam se probudila
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I foundpronađeno I was institutionalizedinstitucionalizirana, and when I saw the other inmateszatvorenika,
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saznala sam da sam u bolnici,
i kada sam vidjela ostale ukućanine,
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I realizedrealizovan that I had foundpronađeno my people, my tribepleme. (LaughterSmijeh)
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shvatila sam da sam pronašla moj narod,
moje pleme. (smijeh)
02:43
Because they becamepostao my only friendsprijatelji, they becamepostao my friendsprijatelji,
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Jer postali su mi jedini prijatelji,
postali su mi prijatelji,
02:46
because very fewnekoliko people that I knewznao je -- Well, I wasn'tnije
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pošto mi ono malo poznanika
-- znate, nisu mi
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sentposlat a lot of cardskartice or flowerscvijeće. I mean, if I had had a brokenslomljen legnoga
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slali mnogo razglednica ili cvijeća.
Mislim, da sam polomila nogu
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or I was with childdete I would have been inundatedpreplavljen,
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ili da sam bila trudna
ugnjavili bi me pažnjom,
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but all I got was a couplepar phonetelefon callspozive tellinggovoreći me to perkmotka up.
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ali ovako sam dobila samo par telefonskih
poziva u kojima su mi rekli da živnem.
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PerkMotka up.
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Da živnem.
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Because I didn't think of that. (LaughterSmijeh)
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Jer se sama nisam sjetila toga.
(smijeh)
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(LaughterSmijeh) (ApplausePljesak)
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(smijeh)
(aplauz)
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Because, you know, the one thing, one thing that you get with this diseasebolesti,
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Jer, vidite, ono što dobijete
uz ovu bolest,
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this one comesdolazi with a packagepaket, is you get a realstvarno sensesmisao of shamesramota,
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što ide u paketu,
jeste pravi osjećaj srama,
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because your friendsprijatelji go, "Oh come on, showshow me the lumpgrudnjak,
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jer prijatelji vam govore:
''Pokaži mi oteklinu,
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showshow me the x-raysx-zrake," and of coursekurs you've got nothing to showshow,
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pokaži mi rentgen''.
Naravno, nemate im šta pokazati,
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so you're, like, really disgustedzgrožen with yourselfsami because you're thinkingrazmišljanje,
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i onda se gadite sami sebi
jer razmišljate:
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"I'm not beingbiće carpet-bombedcarpet-bombed. I don't liveuživo in a townshipopćina."
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''Nisam zasuta minama.
Ne živim u predgrađu.''
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So you startpočnite to hearčuti these abusiveuvredljiv voicesglasovi, but you don't hearčuti one abusiveuvredljiv voiceglas,
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Počinjete da čujete glasove,
ali ne jedan glas,
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you hearčuti about a thousandhiljadu -- 100,000 abusiveuvredljiv voicesglasovi,
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vec čujete ih oko 1.000,
100.000 pogrdnih glasova,
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like if the DevilVrag had Tourette'sTourette, that's what it would soundzvuk like.
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da đavo ima Turetov sindrom,
tako bi to zvučalo.
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But we all know in here, you know, there is no DevilVrag,
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Ali svi mi ovdje znamo da Đavo ne postoji
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there are no voicesglasovi in your headglava.
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da nema glasova u glavi.
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You know that when you have those abusiveuvredljiv voicesglasovi,
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Znate kada čujete
te glasove u svojoj glavi
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all those little neuronsneurona get togetherzajedno and in that little gapjaz
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svi ti mali neuroni
se skupe u taj mali prostor
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you get a realstvarno toxictoksično "I want to killubij myselfja" kindkind of chemicalhemijski,
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i stvori se veoma opasna
"hoću da se ubijem" hemikalija,
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and if you have that over and over again on a looppetlja tapetraka,
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i ako vam se to ponavlja iznova i iznova
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you mightMožda have yourselfsami depressiondepresija.
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možda dobijete depresiju.
03:55
Oh, and that's not even the tipvrh of the icebergledeni breg.
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Ali, to nije vrh ledenog brijega.
03:58
If you get a little babybeba, and you abusezloupotreba it verballyverbalno,
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Ako dobijete malu bebu
i verbalno je zlostavljate,
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its little brainmozak sendsšalje out chemicalshemikalije that are so destructivedestruktivno
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njen mali mozak šalje hemikalije
koje su tako destruktivne
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that the little partdeo of its brainmozak that can tell good from badloše just doesn't growraste,
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da se maleni dio mozga zaslužan
za razlikovanje dobra od zla ne razvije,
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so you mightMožda have yourselfsami a homegrownhomegrown psychoticpsihotično.
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i na taj način dobijate kučno
uzgojenu psihotičnu osobu.
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If a soldiervojnik seesvidi his friendprijatelju blownraznesen up, his brainmozak goeside into
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Ako vojnik vidi da mu prijatelja
raznese eksplozija, njegov mozak je
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suchtakve highvisoka alarmalarm that he can't actuallyzapravo put the experienceiskustvo into wordsriječi,
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toliko uzbuđen da on zapravo
ne može riječima opisati to iskustvo,
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so he just feelsoseća se the horroružas over and over again.
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tako da traumu iznova proživljava.
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So here'sevo my questionpitanje. My questionpitanje is, how come
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Evo mog pitanja. Moje pitanje je, kako to
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when people have mentalmentalno damagešteta, it's always an activeaktivan imaginationmaštu?
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da se kod ljudi sa mentalnim oštećenjem
uvijek radi o aktivnoj mašti?
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How come everysvaki other organorgan in your bodytelo can get sickbolestan
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Kako to da se svaki organ
u tijelu može razboljeti
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and you get sympathysimpatija, exceptosim the brainmozak?
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i izazvati saosjećanje, osim mozga?
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I'd like to talk a little bitbit more about the brainmozak,
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Želim malo da govorim o mozgu,
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because I know you like that here at TEDTED,
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jer znam da to volite ovdje na TED-u,
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so if you just give me a minuteminut here, okay.
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pa me saslušajte minut, može.
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Okay, let me just say, there's some good newsvijesti.
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U redu, samo da vam kažem
da ima dobrih vijesti.
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There is some good newsvijesti. First of all, let me say,
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Ima dobrih vijesti.
Kao prvo, da kažem
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we'vemi smo come a long, long way.
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da smo prešli dug, dug put.
04:50
We startedzapočet off as a teenyteeny, teenyteeny little one-celledjednoćelijski amoebaAmeba,
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Počeli smo kao malena jednoćelijska ameba,
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tinysitni, just stickingzalepiti se ontona a rockrock, and now, voilaOpa, the brainmozak.
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malena, zaljepljena za stijenu,
a danas je to mozak.
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Here we go. (LaughterSmijeh)
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Pogledajte.
(smijeh)
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This little babybeba has a lot of horsepowerkonjska snaga.
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Ova mala beba je veoma snažna.
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It comesdolazi completelypotpuno conscioussvesna. It's got state-of-the-artnajsavremenija lobeslobes.
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Dolazi potpuno svjesna.
Ima najmodernije režnjeve.
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We'veMoramo got the occipitalpotiljak loberežanj so we can actuallyzapravo see the worldsvet.
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Tu nam je čeoni režanj
da možemo vidjeti svijet.
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We got the temporalvremenski loberežanj so we can actuallyzapravo hearčuti the worldsvet.
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Tu nam je sljepoočni režanj
da možemo čuti svijet.
05:13
Here we'vemi smo got a little bitbit of long-termdugoročno memorymemorije,
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Ovdje imamo malo
dugoročnog pamćenja,
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so, you know that night you want to forgetzaboraviti, when you got really drunkpijan? Bye-byePa-pa! GoneOtišao. (LaughterSmijeh)
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znate, ona noć kad ste se napili i želite
da je zaboravite? Ćao! Nestala. (smijeh)
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So actuallyzapravo, it's filledispunjen with 100 billionmilijardu neuronsneurona
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U njemu je 100 milijardi neurona
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just zizzingzizzing away, electricallyelektrički transmittingprijenos informationinformacije,
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koji zuje i putem struje
prenose informacije,
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zizzingzizzing, zizzingzizzing. I'm going to give you a little sidestrana viewpogled here.
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zuje, zuje. Sada ću vam
pokazati pogled sa strane.
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I don't know if you can get that here. (LaughterSmijeh)
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Ne znam vidite li odatle.
(smijeh)
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So, zizzingzizzing away, and so — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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Dakle, zuje, i tako -
(smijeh)
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And for everysvaki one — I know, I drewdrew this myselfja. Thank you.
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I na svaki - znam, crtala sam ovo sama.
Hvala vam.
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For everysvaki one singlesingl neuronneuron, you can actuallyzapravo have
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Na svaki neuron dolazi od
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from 10,000 to 100,000 differentdrugačiji connectionsveze
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10.000 do 100.000 različitih veza
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or dendritesdendritima or whateverkako god you want to call it, and everysvaki time
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ili dendrita ili kako god hoćete
da ih zovete, i svaki put
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you learnuči something, or you have an experienceiskustvo,
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kad naučite nešto novo,
ili doživite novo iskustvo,
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that bushgrm growsraste, you know, that bushgrm of informationinformacije.
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taj grm raste, znate,
taj grm informacija.
05:56
Can you imaginezamislite, everysvaki humančovjek beingbiće is carryingnošenje
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Zamislite, svako živo biće nosi
05:59
that equipmentoprema, even ParisPariz HiltonHilton? (LaughterSmijeh)
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ovu opremu, čak i Paris Hilton?
(smijeh)
06:04
Go figurefigura.
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Pa vi vidite.
06:06
But I got a little badloše newsvijesti for you folksljudi. I got some badloše newsvijesti.
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Imam i loše vijesti za vas, narode.
Imam neke loše vijesti.
06:09
This isn't for the one in fourčetiri. This is for the fourčetiri in fourčetiri.
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A one ne važe za jednu od četiri osobe,
već za sve četiri.
06:12
We are not equippedopremljen for the 21stst centuryvek.
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Nismo opremljeni za 21. vijek.
06:16
EvolutionEvolucija did not preparepripremiti us for this. We just don't have the bandwidthbandwidth,
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Evolucija nas nije pripremila za ovo.
Nemamo dovoljan protok informacija,
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and for people who say, oh, they're havingimati a nicelepo day,
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a ljudi koji kažu:
"O, uživaju u lijepom danu
06:23
they're perfectlysavršeno fine, they're more insaneludak than the restodmor of us.
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sasvim su u redu, oni su
mnogo luđi nego mi ostali.
06:26
Because I'll showshow you where there mightMožda be a fewnekoliko glitchesPropuste
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Pokazat ću vam moguće greške
06:29
in evolutionevolucija. Okay, let me just explainobjasni this to you.
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u evoluciji. U redu, da vam objasnim.
06:31
When we were ancientdrevni man — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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Kada smo bili drevni ljudi
-- (smijeh) --
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millionsmiliona of yearsgodine agopre, and we suddenlyiznenada feltosećao se threatenedugrožen
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prije milione godina,
i najednom smo osjetili prijetnju
06:39
by a predatorgrabežljivac, okay? — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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od strane grabljivaca, može?
-- (smijeh) --
06:42
we would — Thank you. I drewdrew these myselfja. (LaughterSmijeh)
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tad bismo - Hvala vam. Sama sam crtala.
(smijeh)
06:45
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. (ApplausePljesak)
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Hvala vam mnogo. Hvala vam. Hvala vam.
(aplauz)
06:49
Thank you. AnywayU svakom slučaju, we would fillpopunite up with our ownvlastiti adrenalineadrenalin
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Hvala vam.
Nego, napunili bismo se našim adrenalinom
06:53
and our ownvlastiti cortisolKortizol, and then we'dmi smo killubij or be killedubijen,
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i našim kortizolom,
i onda bismo ubili ili bili ubijeni,
06:56
we'dmi smo eatjesti or we'dmi smo be eatenjede, and then suddenlyiznenada we'dmi smo de-fuelde-gorivo,
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jeli bi ili bi bili pojedeni,
i odjednom bismo se ispraznili,
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and we'dmi smo go back to normalnormalno. Okay.
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i vartili se u normalu. U radu.
07:01
So the problemproblem is, nowadaysdanas, with modernmoderno man— (LaughterSmijeh) —
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Problem sa današnjim čovjekom je
-- (smijeh) --
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when we feel in dangeropasnost, we still fillpopunite up with our ownvlastiti chemicalhemijski
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kada osjetimo opasnost punimo
našim hemikalijama
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but because we can't killubij trafficsaobraćaj wardensupravitelja — (LaughterSmijeh) —
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ali, pošto ne možemo ubiti saobračajce
-- (smijeh) --
07:15
or eatjesti estatenekretnine agentsagenti, the fuelgorivo just staysostaje in our bodytelo
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ili pojesti agente za nekretnine,
hemikalije ostaju u tijelu
iznova i iznova,
tako da smo stalno u uzbuđenom stanju,
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over and over, so we're in a constantkonstantno statestanje of alarmalarm,
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a constantkonstantno statestanje. And here'sevo anotherdrugi thing that happeneddogodilo se.
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trajnom stanju. A, evo šta još bude.
07:24
About 150,000 yearsgodine agopre, when languagejezik camedošao onlineonline,
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Prije 150.000 godina, kada smo progovorili
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we startedzapočet to put wordsriječi to this constantkonstantno emergencyhitan slučaj,
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ovo trajno stanje smo počeli opisivati,
tako da nije bilo samo:
"Oh moj Bože, eno sabljasti tigar.'',
07:29
so it wasn'tnije just, "Oh my God, there's a saber-toothedsablja ozubljenje tigertigar,"
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što je i moglo biti,
već se odjednom pojavilo
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whichšto could be, it was suddenlyiznenada, "Oh my God, I didn't sendpošalji the emailemail. Oh my God, my thighsbedra are too fatmast.
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"Oh moj Bože, nisam poslala e-mail.
Oh moj Bože, moje butine su predebele!
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Oh my God, everybodysvi can see I'm stupidglupo. I didn't get invitedpozvani to the ChristmasBožić partyparty!"
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Oh moj Bože, svi vide da sam glupa.
Nisam pozvana na božićnu zabavu!"
07:40
So you've got this naggingprigovaralo looppetlja tapetraka that goeside
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U glavi vam je taj dosadni snimak
07:42
over and over again that drivespogoni you insaneludak, so,
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koji se ponavlja i ponavlja
i izluđuje vas, vidite,
07:45
you see what the problemproblem is? What oncejednom madenapravljen you safesigurno
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u čemu je problem?
Ono što vas je nekad štitilo
07:48
now drivespogoni you insaneludak.
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sada vas izluđuje.
07:50
I'm sorry to be the bearernositelj of badloše newsvijesti, but somebodyneko has to be.
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Žao mi je što sam glasnik loših vijesti,
ali i to je neko morao biti.
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Your petsKućni ljubimci are happiersretniji than you are. (LaughterSmijeh)
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Vaši kućni ljubimci su sretniji od vas.
(smijeh)
(aplauz)
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(ApplausePljesak)
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So kittymaca catmačka, meowMJAU, happysrećan happysrećan happysrećan, humančovjek beingsbića, screwedzeznuti. (LaughterSmijeh)
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Mala maca mjau, srećna, srećna,
srećna ljudska bića, propala. (smijeh)
08:07
CompletelyPotpuno and utterlykrajnje -- so, screwedzeznuti.
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Sasvim i do kraja - propala.
08:09
But my pointtačka is, if we don't talk about this stuffstvari,
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Hoću da kažem, ako ne pričamo
o ovim stvarima,
08:12
and we don't learnuči how to dealdogovoriti with our livesživi, it's not going
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i ako ne naučimo kako da se nosimo
sa našim životima, neće
08:14
to be one in fourčetiri. It's going to be fourčetiri in fourčetiri
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biti jedno od četiri.
Već će biti četiri od četiri osobe
08:16
who are really, really going to get illbolestan in the upstairsna katu departmentdepartman.
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koje će se ozbiljno razboljeti
na gornjem odjelu.
08:20
And while we're at it, can we please stop the stigmastigme?
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I kad već pričamo o tome, možemo
li molim vas prestati sa žigosanjem?
08:22
Thank you. (ApplausePljesak)
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Hvala vam.
(aplauz)
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(ApplausePljesak) Thank you.
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(aplauz)
Hvala vam.
Translated by Lejla Burkic
Reviewed by Mislav Ante Omazić - EFZG

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ruby Wax - Comedian and Mental Health Activist
Ruby Wax is a loud, funny woman -- who spent much of her comedy career battling depression in silence. Now her work blends mental health advocacy and laughs.

Why you should listen

Winston Churchill called it "the Black Dog" -- a depression that settled over him and drained the flavor from life. Ruby Wax knows the Black Dog well; throughout the '80s and '90s, during a flourishing career as a brash comedian and interviewer in the UK, it trotted at her heels, even while she was interviewing the Duchess of York and sorting through Imelda Marcos' shoes.

After taking a timeout to learn how to manage the condition, Wax produced a stand-up comedy show called "Losing It" that directly addresses her mental health experiences, hilariously but powerfully. And she's started up a new social network called the Black Dog Tribe, which offers a community and support to people with depression. Meanwhile, she's working on her Master's in cognitive therapy.

Also, this year, Ruby was honored as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her mental health work.

As she says: "I've always said to myself, if you've got a disability, use it." Read our Q&A with >>

Ruby is also a visiting professor at The University of Surrey.

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