Reach Out In Northern BC
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PRINCE GEORGE – The BC Schizophrenia Society’s Reach Out tour has spent the week in Prince George, visiting nine schools around the region, talking about psychosis. It’s a disease that typically shows itself in young people between the ages of 15 and 24. Three out of every 100 Canadians will experience a psychotic episode. It can lead to many different forms of mental illness, like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
The tour is accompanied by the band Good Bad Luck, headed up by Sarah Jickling, who had an episode at the age of 14.
“Up ’til now, a lot of us haven’t been able to talk about this stuff and so the way that we cope is often with drugs, alcohol, self-harm, unhealthy eating, different things like that.”
The Society has done the tour around the province speaking to thousands of students, in hopes that someone will be able to recognize the signs before it becomes too late.
