David Granirer

David Granirer is a Canadian counsellor, stand-up comic, public speaker, and 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, and advocates for the de-stigmatization of mental illness, speaking openly about his own experience with depression. He teaches stand-up comedy to people with mental illness at Langara College in Vancouver. As a public speaker, he presents talks such as Fighting Stigma in the Workplace and Laughter in the Workplace. His father and grandparents were Romanian Jews who survived concentration camps.