As a young student in CEGEP (in Quebec, we replace the last year of high school and the first of university with an intermediate general college system called CEGEPs), I took a course called Poverty in Montreal. I thought it was a joke at first. I had grown up watching starving children in Biafra with [...]
Category Archives: Mental health
Schizophrenia and the public’s perception
There were some news reports last week in the French-language media of Quebec that discussed the dangerosity of those suffering from Schizophrenia. It was specifically referring to the killing of a couple by their mentally ill son. One cannot deny that there are tragic events related to schizophrenia such as this one. However, they remain [...]
Depression and Burnout
The Douglas Institute Foundation recently ran a public education and fundraising campaign. One of the topics it chose was “Burnout.”It seems that everyone has a different idea about what burnout is and most people confuse it with depression (and with good reason because “Burnout” is not a well-defined term). In order to help shed some [...]
