Stand Up For Mental Health
Stand Up For Mental Health teaches stand up comedy to people with mental illness as a way of building their confidence and fighting public stigma, prejudice, and discrimination.
If that isn’t awesome I don’t know what is.
In an article on WTOP.com, founder and teacher David Granirer said, “People see these folks with labels like ‘bipolar’ and ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘depression’ doing standup comedy _ something that most so-called normal people would never even want to attempt _ and so they’re seen as people that we admire as opposed to people we pity and look down upon.”
If you’re up for a laugh, check out some of their videos.
