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Mental Health Awareness

Five Tips for Mental Health Wellness at Work

Deri Latimer | Posted 05.03.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Mental Health, Workplace, Positive Psychology, Wellness, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Week, Canada Business News
Deri Latimer

Next week is Mental Health Week. So, take some time this month and look around your workplace. Ask yourself how you are doing. Ask your staff, co-workers, leaders, clients and suppliers how you are doing. Then, decide which of these 10 tips you might be able to begin implementing right away.

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What Mental Health Needs More Than Science

Andrew Boozary | Posted 04.14.2013 | Canada
Read More: Psychiatry, Healthy Living Mind, Mental Health, Camh, Medicine, Mental Health Stigma, Bell Canada, Mental Health Awareness, Bell Canada Mental Illness, Canada News
Andrew Boozary

The idea that social injustice can drive a health gradient is becoming a bigger facet of medical education in Canada. How are we trained to embrace the culpability of mental illness? Are we relying too much on a neuronal pathway, genetic cause or even a drug to legitimize disease?

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Creating Young Game Changers in 2013

Deri Latimer | Posted 03.09.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Positive Thinking, Mental Health, Wealth, Positive Psychology, Resilience, Teen Mental Health, Game Changers, Jamie Hubley, Mental Health Awareness, Video, Canada Impact News
Deri Latimer

I am on a mission. My mission is to increase the messaging and information about positive mental health. I believe that the more we practice positive mental health, every day, the less chance there is that negative, debilitating, fateful thoughts, feelings or actions will transpire. There simply will not be room for those thoughts, feelings, and actions to take over.

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Danny "Hurricane" Halmo E-Bikes Canada For "Food-Raising Tour"

CBC | Posted 08.20.2012 | Canada Impact
Read More: Danny Halmo, Food Donation Awareness, Hurricane Halmo, Food Banks, E-Biking Across Canada, E-Biking Canada, E-Biking for Food Donations, E-Bikes Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Video, Canada Impact News

A man attempting to be the first person to ride an electric bike across Canada was in Sudbury Friday as part of his Mania In Motion tour. Danny "Hu...

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The Most Common Mental Health Misconceptions

Arthur Gallant | Posted 08.13.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Mental Illness, Mental Health, Mental Health Stigma, Camh, Mental Health Awareness, Ad Campaign Mental Health, Mental Health Ad Campaign, Mental Health Sigma, Stigma Mental Health, Slideexpand, Canada Living News
Arthur Gallant

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto launched an awareness campaign today in the hopes of bringing attention to the stigma those with mental illness face to help defeat it. The ads quote some of the most common things those of us with mental illness hear. These are the ones I encounter most frequently.

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Not Feeling Yourself? You're Not Alone...

Natasha Koifman | Posted 06.03.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Partners for Mental Health, Mental Health, Not Myself Today, Mental Illness, Mental Health Canada, Mental Health Awareness, Canada Living News
Natasha Koifman

When was the last time you weren't feeling like yourself and responded honestly when asked how you were doing? I rarely do... I say I'm good or fine when I'm really not. I'm not sure why I'm not honest about it...

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