Kevin Breel has decided to confess in public that he suffers from depression. What makes his case special is the fact that he is a stand -up comedian. He tells about his impression of leading two lives: the one that everybody sees and the second - internal struggle with the illness. Kevin explains what depression is, because many people mistake it. Real depression is not being sad when something in your life goes wrong, but it's being sad when everything seems all right.

Kevin finds it hard to talk about it publicly but the main idea of his talk is to start sharing this. There is a need to fight the stigma connected to depression. Every 30 seconds someone commits a suicide - the problem is massive and should be treated equally with other problems like breaking your arm and so on.

There's a tendency to avoid the topic and to wish the problem would disappear. But it is just a procrastination. The author of the talk claims that the biggest problem refers not to depression itself but to the stigma, inability of sharing the problem. Kevin hopes that people who suffer from depression could stop feeling ashamed and begin to support each other so the problem decreases . To achieve that people have to get rid of ignorance of, stigma in order to build the better world.

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