Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced on Friday a five-year plan to improve access to mental-health services – with a focus on providing better treatment to troubled youth – but critics raised doubts as to whether the …
Mental Illness Awareness Week (Oct. 4 to 10) aims to help break the silence on mental-health issues, to bring them out of the shadows in which they so often dwell. It's a hugely worthwhile goal.
While most of my blog topics have been positive in nature, this one is more serious because it's SO important. I had NO idea how common postpartum depression is for new moms. In fact, postpartum depression is the most …
A new online forum, AlbertaPatients.ca, set up earlier this year has received responses from people saying they struggle to access mental health care, and, once they receive it, the quality is less than ideal. The questionnaire …
As if dating isn't already tough enough, schizoaffective hypomania makes dating and love even harder. Those of us with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder have a lot to deal with when dating. For example, there's the …
