January 14, 2019

Episode 9. Nadia Khan: Care for a Delicate Mind

29 minutes

TW: depression, suicide, mental health stigma

Nadia Khan is a researcher, mental health activist and community organiser from the United Kingdom. She is a co-founder of The Delicate Mind, a social enterprise that works to engage faith leaders and other members in the Muslim community in nuanced, science-based discussions about mental health, masculinity and identity.

In this episode we talk about:

How mental health stigma harms young people in the South-Asian community in the UK;

The root causes of this stigma and how it is exacerbated by factors such as economic deprivation and social exclusion;

Working with different community stakeholders;

Interfaith organising;

Benefits of setting up a social enterprise; and

Success as inner peace.

Find out more about Nadia and her work in the show notes to this episode.

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