A message from Jo sharing her story on overcoming anxiety and depression, and how she’s continued to advocate for others by reducing mental health stigma.
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Have you ever heard a story of someone valiantly battling and overcoming their inner demons? It’s a common narrative, one reinforced by depictions of creepy, towering beasts that are supposed to represent the war inside a mentally ill person’s head.
Read this fascinating story from Billy Hebbart on how he understands his own experiences with mental illness.
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Guest blogger Janice Miller from Safety Today shares her insights, perspectives and tips on how parents and youth can tackle adolescent anxiety together.
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Mental illness is not anonymous. Those who struggle have names and faces, lives and families, passions and challenges. To help break the stigma, the Outrun the Stigma Edmonton planning committee reached out to the University of Alberta community to share stories on mental health.
Hear their stories and their experiences.
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Alyson Hoy is a writer and scholar from Vancouver, BC. She shared her mental health story with Outrun the Stigma because she believes that "sharing our stories is a means by which to overcome the shame associated with having mental illness, as well as to build community by connecting and bearing witness to the struggles of others".
Read her story on her struggles with suicidal ideation, an eating disorder, and how she is building resiliency.
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Mental illness is not anonymous. Those who struggle have names and faces, lives and families, passions and challenges. To help break the stigma, the Outrun the Stigma Edmonton planning committee reached out to the University of Alberta community to share stories on mental health.
Hear their stories and their experiences.
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Mental illness is not anonymous. Those who struggle have names and faces, lives and families, passions and challenges. To help break the stigma, the Outrun the Stigma Edmonton planning committee reached out to the University of Alberta community to share stories on mental health.
Hear their stories and their experiences.
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Mental illness is not anonymous. Those who struggle have names and faces, lives and families, passions and challenges. To help break the stigma, the Outrun the Stigma Edmonton planning committee reached out to the University of Alberta community to share stories on mental health.
Hear their stories and their experiences.
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Mental illness is not anonymous. Those who struggle have names and faces, lives and families, passions and challenges. To help break the stigma, the Outrun the Stigma Edmonton planning committee reached out to the University of Alberta community to share stories on mental health.
Hear their stories and their experiences.
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Suicide is a conversation that many people find incredibly difficult to talk about. In this blog post, we are talking about suicide and how we can work together to try and reduce stigma and help change the prevalence of suicide in Canada.
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Canada Day 150 is a wonderful opportunity to initiate conversations on the impact of Canada’s past and present on Canadians’ mental health. As you celebrate, engage in activism and resistance, or observe all the amazing things happening on Canada Day, we encourage you to remember to take care of your own mental health and the mental health of those around you. Here are five tips to help you care for your own well-being today!
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The danger of being a lifelong depressed and anxious person means that you can struggle to identify the signs of your own declining mental health.
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I made the decision right then and there to save my own life ... I know I'll always struggle with my mental health but I'm determined to keep living, to find treatment and answers in case my children have to fight this fight.
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