Self-management and community-based research take centre stage
In 1997, while attending university, Michael Crane was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In recent years he has been working to try and find new and progressive ways to help others who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, their families and friends, and people who work in the field of mental health.
Michael is a member of the Collaborative RESearch Team—CREST.BD— which studies psychosocial issues in Bipolar Disorder. CREST.BD is a team of researchers, clinicians, and consumers dedicated to developing knowledge about bipolar disorder using a community-based research approach. (more…)
The late Dr. Abram Hoffer MD, PhD, was a Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist and researcher. Dr. Hoffer and his co-workers were instrumental in the discovery that megadoses of vitamin B3 (nicotinic acid/niacin) were therapeutic for schizophrenia and can be used to lower cholesterol levels. The discovery, which was published in 1955, is credited with the initiation of a new paradigm in nutritional medicine—the use of vitamins for treatment and not just for prevention of disease. 
A ten session education program for family and friends of people with serious and persistent mental illnesses begins April 7, 2010 in Nanaimo. The course deals with five major mental health disorders: schizophrenia, clinical depression, bipolar, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorders.
No parent ever wants to see their child develop a chronic medical disability. But, when it is one that is so misunderstood by society as is schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses, it is even more traumatic. Now, a new book called 
Two students from Ottawa’s Canterbury High School have created a theatre production based on overcoming unhealthy body image. The play, called “Enough: A Whimsical and Political Statement About Beauty and Self-Image,” was recently presented on the Fourth Stage of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Depression as an illness is a serious condition that brings about substantial changes in mood, behaviour, and thinking. It affects 