Academic pressures affect students’ mental health
BY JANA GREGORIO The stresses of school finally caught up to Brennan Woods. The 26-year-old Electrical Engineering student at Mohawk College entered a classroom he thought was his lab. When he realized he was in the wrong class, the situation triggered an anxiety attack and he spent two months in the hospital. “[The pressure to succeed] […]
Bell Let’s Talk day aims to keep mental health conversations going
BY ERIN QUEENAN “For some people, its the ads,” says Mary Deacon, chairman of Bell Let’s Talk Canada, an annual event to raise money for mental health and reduce its stigma. Tomorrow, on Jan. 27, for every tweet with the hashtag #BellLetsTalk, Facebook share of their image, and text and mobile or long distance call […]
Depression hits everybody
With depression hurting millions of Canadians, Sheridan Sun reporter Michael Rodrigues looks into the lives of people who have battled the illness and have had their families hurt by it. Depression can knock its victims on the ground and cause everyday tasks such as getting out of bed and showering to become battles within ones […]
Cold comfort: coping with seasonal affective disorder
BY MARKO WOLOSHYN Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that spikes in the fall and lasts throughout the winter into the spring. During SAD’s high season, it is known to severely affect 2 to 6 per cent of Canadians, and to a lesser extent 15 per cent. MORE RELATED TO THIS STORY […]
TV’s Teens 101: helping young adults overcome their challenges
STORY BY VANESSA GILLIS Can awareness save lives? Daniel D’Or hopes his new show can. Teens 101 is a 13-part TV series aimed at helping young adults deal with the stresses of adolescence, ranging from bullying, depression, and anxiety to addiction and body image. “I’m really excited about doing this. It’s a passion project, it […]
Bell runs risk of phoning it in
STORY BY MARKO WOLOSHYN PHOTOS BY FRANK BUTTY In the wake of Bell Canada’s Let’s Talk day – which raised nearly $5.5 million for Canadian mental health programs – experts are encouraging Canadians to continue to address and elaborate on the issue. Last Tuesday, Bell raised $5,472,586 through an accumulated 109,451,719 tweets, texts, Facebook shares, […]
