October 10: World Mental Health Day

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*52 per cent of Canadians struggle with their mental health and aren’t getting the help they need.

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Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan

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*1 in 8 Canadians have been experiencing high levels of anxiety.

*15 per cent of Canadians have accessed mental health services in the last year

Not all that long ago, the words ” mental illness” were words never uttered.

“When I first went to school in psychology, we did not talk about mental illness. It was nowhere in the textbooks,” says Elaine Laberge, Executive Director with the Northern BC Branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

And while there is still a stigma attached to it, much has changed.

“We’ve had a lot of public relations campaigns; Bell’s ‘Let’s Talk About It’ and things of that nature that have raised awareness around mental illness,” says Schmidt.

Unfortunately, there are not nearly enough professionals to grapple with mental illness

“You get to say, I’m living with this feeling and it’s debilitating and I can’t get out of bed in the morning and I’m struggling to clean my house. And you’ve got 30 seconds with a doctor, and that’s your best hope,” says Laberge.

An those circumstances are particularly acute in rural and remote communities.