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| David Granirer | |
|---|---|
| Medium | Stand-up |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Genres | Satire, Observational comedy |
David Granirer is a Canadian counsellor, stand-up comic, public speaker and the author of The Happy Neurotic: How Fear and Angst can Lead to Happiness and Success. He is the founder of Stand Up For Mental Health.
Granirer advocates for the de-stigmatization of mental illness and speaks openly about his experience with depression. He also teaches stand-up comedy to people with mental illness at Langara College in Vancouver. He is a public speaker who presents Fighting Stigma in the Workplace and Laughter in the Workplace.
His father and grandparents were Romanian Jews who survived concentration camps.
References
- video: David Granirer's Take on Stigma at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TUCjBWV7IA
- David Granirer Mental Health Consulting, http://www.granirer.com/about_david.html Archived 2009-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
- About David Granirer, http://www.standupformentalhealth.com/aboutdavid.shtml
- "Depressingly Funny". 21 October 2006.