Canada’s national Mental Health Week (May 4-10, 2015) focuses this year on men’s mental health — and the correlation between physical and mental illnesses.
Mental illness often goes undetected or untreated in men due to pressures of stigma
May 4th, 2015 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Mental illness often goes undetected or untreated in men due to pressures of stigma)What exactly IS “agoraphobia” and is there a “cure”?
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Agoraphobia is the most common phobic disorder, and is also the most disabling
Guilty secrets, forbidden escapes, and all in the mind, at Nanaimo Fringe
August 17th, 2014 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Guilty secrets, forbidden escapes, and all in the mind, at Nanaimo Fringe)New Nanaimo theatre company uses ‘devised production’ technique to create a tale of two women—one institutionalized and the other a nurse, trying to help
Feeling a little normal? Come a-muse yourself inside Grace’s head for an hour. Share her world of cellos, bubbles and chalk, where voices collide and mysteries unravel. Create a song with the other members of her imagination, where the outside world melts into a shattered lullaby.
The play is being performed at the 2014 Nanaimo Fringe Festival, at the Nanaimo Museum venue.
“If I get therapy can I get off these meds?”
July 1st, 2014 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on “If I get therapy can I get off these meds?”)Therapist Michael Pond has been captivated by rigorous and extensive research that argues millions of people who are prescribed psychotropic drugs derive no benefit from them and, in fact, may be making their illness worse by taking them
Vancouver therapist Michael Pond says that at least once a week a client asks him, “If I get therapy can I get off this medication?” Michael’s typical response, he writes in the Vancouver Sun, is: “We’ll need to consult with your physician. If you’ve been diagnosed with a mental disorder and you’ve been taking your meds for a significant period of time you need to continue to keep your brain chemistry balanced. Psychotherapy will help for sure, but you will most likely need some type of psychotropic medication for an indefinite time.”
Not enough Canadian youth are getting the mental health care they need
June 30th, 2014 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Not enough Canadian youth are getting the mental health care they need)New research network will develop strategies to ensure that more young people are connected to the mental health services they need
In Canada, one-in-five people experience a mental illness in their lifetime. However, it is young Canadians that suffer the most, with 75% of mental health problems and illnesses beginning prior to the age of 25, and more than 50% beginning between the ages of 11 and 25.
An estimated 1.2 million Canadian children and youth are affected by mental illness—yet less than 20 per cent will receive appropriate treatment. With more than two-thirds of adults living with a mental health problem reporting that symptoms first appeared during their youth, establishing the foundation for healthy emotional and social development is vital to ensuring the mental well-being of all Canadians as they progress from childhood to adulthood. [Mental Health Commission of Canada]
Front page tragedies: Mentally ill people are being criminalized
June 17th, 2014 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Front page tragedies: Mentally ill people are being criminalized)Society’s wait-and-see inactivity—until something horrible happens—in effect criminalizes mental illness, says Austin Mardon
Austin Mardon is an academic, author, and community leader who has participated in community based volunteerism and is an advocate for the disabled. He has also struggled with schizophrenia for much of his adult life. In 2006, Austin became the first Canadian with schizophrenia to be awarded the Order of Canada. In a full commentary published on June 14, 2014 in the Edmonton Journal, Austin argues that mental illness should be treated as aggressively as cancer. “Our inactivity as a society until something horrible happens,” he writes, “in effect criminalizes mental illness, which is first and foremost an illness and a medical issue.” Austin believes that tragedies such as the murders of three Moncton, New Brunswick RCMP officers on June 4, will continue to happen until we learn to diagnose and treat mental illnesses quickly and aggressively.
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