This is mental health awareness week. It is a week when we focus on general well-being in all of us as opposed to discussing illnesses as we do during mental illness week in October. In that spirit I wrote the following article for today’s edition of Métro. Betting on happiness (Source: Le bonheur à tout [...]
Tag Archives: Mental health
It’s all in your brain
The Douglas Institute recently released a video designed to spark interest and debate about mental health and to encourage people to consult our website, which is a rich source of up-to-date and scientilically validated information on a wide variety of mental health topics. The video was designed to grab people’s attention and in this respect [...]
Great Canadian literature?
Hi Folks. Back from vacation. It was nice acting like a kid again (outside most days riding my bike, playing golf, or kayaking). After throwing in plenty of quality time with the family and significant stretches of time spent sitting around scratching my a**, it was perfect. I’ll keep this post brief. I just wanted [...]
Teen mental health
I just added a new link in the section “Some links” entitled Teen Mental Health. It is a great resource on a wide range of issues in adolescent mental health. The blog is written by Dr. Stan Kutcher, and its purpose is to “share scientifically-validated information about adolescent mental health to advance the understanding of [...]
My life and my brain
OK, so my good friend, and fellow Douglas Institute blogger, Joe Rochford (The Rochford Files), has decided to write about some of the discussions we have had in the past. It seems that in between conversations about Bob Dylan, particle physics, and unpleasant bodily functions, we occasionally touched on questions of mental illness (what are [...]
