Leading Minds - Episode 13 - Black History Month Series - A Broken System with Mulz Simpasa of Skitzo

As a continuation of our black history month series this episode delves deep into inequality and discrimination that are rife in the treatment of mental health systemically. We drill deep into a system run on inequality and poor resources , wrong diagnoses and counterproductive, out of the box solutions.

Shockingly a recent statistic revealed by the NHS shows that black people are 4 times more likely to be sectioned than their white counterparts.

This means that the “system” would rather detain people from black backgrounds under the mental health act than provide the actual resources needed to overcome their challenges.

Mulz is an alarming example of black people being sectioned wrongly and having to face the unfair consequences in cold and bleak institutions that offer no tangible signposted solutions for recovery rather a bureaucratic system of clip boards and tick boxes that pigeon hole the sufferer.

In his darkest moment in 2016 Mulz attempted suicide overdosing to escape the pressure of society and the self imposed sense of failure that he felt through environmental pressures, his subsequent treatment by the authorities will give you goose bumps. His story is one of discrimination, profiling and an exposure of a broken mental health system.

The world is lucky that Mulz survived so that we could all enjoy an extraordinarily skilled and creative individual whose passion runs through his designs at Skitzo Worldwide.

This humble individual shies away from taking any credit for his success and focusses on the Skitzo family - a multicultural community of super creative and gifted individuals.

Leading Minds....Leading you to a better life.