Rituals
Design Your Digital Diet for Mental Health
Is it time to take a pause – for your mental health?
Lived Experience
What is It Like Living with Schizophrenia?
At 26, Gillian Corsiatto of Red Deer, Alta., is a published author – her debut novel, Duck Light, asks the serious question: “How can one break free of societal expectations?” More books and plays are underway. She’s also been a keen improv performer with Bullskit Comedy.
Schizophrenia Demonstration Project
The Mental Health Commission of Canada and Ontario Shores will provide tools, education, training, and change management support to enable sites to implement Schizophrenia Quality Standard(s). Each site will benefit from a customized approach based on their specific organizational and regional needs
How to find a 2SLGBTQIA+ mental health service provider
Trying to find a therapist is a lot like dating but let me introduce a new variable – trying to find a therapist – or mental health services at all – as a 2SLGBTQIA+ person. It thins out the dating pool a little bit. But unlike online dating, where there are specialty apps for that, it is a bit more of an odyssey finding mental health services specifically catering to the 2SLGBTQIA+ population.
Society
Best of The Catalyst 2023
Top reads worth revisiting from the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s magazine.
Mental Health for the Holidays
Mental Health For The Holidays
When we speak openly about challenges, illnesses, problems, and wellness, we recognize that mental health is part of our overall health. Such conversations can be a gateway to meaningful change, and the holiday season feels like an especially good time to tackle the complexities and multitudes of our mental health.
Lived Experience
Bread and butter: money and mental health
In a crunch economy, even butter—and therapy—feel unaffordable. You’re not alone; control starts with small steps.
Money & Mental Health
A Roof of One’s Own
The lack of housing options brings its own kind of homesick feeling. We look at the link between housing and health in the second of the series for Financial Literacy Month.
Summary Report: Experience and Expertise of People with Lived and Living Experience on the Integration of Mental Health and Substance Use Health Services in Canada
While integrated services for mental health and substance use health have been studied for more than two decades no recent or comprehensive reviews exist —
