Brianna Fitzgerald
Professor Amy Amoroso
ENG 110
9/12/2017

In Anne Hallward’s TED talk she explains that she became a psychiatrist to become an expert in all things awkward and that she wanted to talk about the things that no one is talking about. A statement from Hallward’s TED talk that really stuck out to me is, “And what I found in my work is that actually shame is not just a very very painful feeling. It is actually a lethal public health threat, because shame is at the heart of essentially everything I do.” Hallward goes onto explain how shame leads to depression, addiction, and even suicide. This quote just really stuck with me because every person has experienced shame at one point or another in their life. We associate shame with the things that no one talks about, the things that people aren’t proud to share. Not sharing and keeping your shame bottled up is what lead to this depression, this addiction, this suicide. The worst part is, the things we are ashamed of, there is a great chance that there are other people out there who are feeling the same shame as you for the same reason. It is difficult, but a solution to this shame and all its acquiring problems, is sharing and talking about. That solution is relating back to Hallward’s main point of her TED talk; that sharing your stories can help people all around relate and feel better about the struggle or situation they are going through.

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