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Mental Health
Offers information on mental health such as mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviour including incidence, prevention and treatment.
Medical science now has evidence to support something most of us have known intuitively for awhile - happiness, including feelings of joy, pleasure, contentment, and our physical health are linked.
Source: Canadian Health Network
Most Canadians are affected by mental illness, either directly or indirectly, through family, friends or colleagues. Yet there is still a stigma attached to this range of diseases that is a barrier to correct diagnosis and treatment, as well as to the acceptance and support of people with mental illness within the community.
Source: Health Canada
Provides basic facts concerning mental health and mental health services with links to related information and resources primarily from the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Source: Health Canada
Getting rid of emotional baggage is an important component of overall health.
Source: Canadian Health Network
There is still so much stigma attached to mental illness that half of sufferers never get treatment. So it's no wonder that there are real fears about being stigmatized in the workplace.
Source: Canadian Health Network
Anxiety and depression are among the most common, most treatable forms of mental illness in Canada.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
Anxiety can be a normal alarm system alerting you to danger. But sometimes anxiety may go out of control, giving you an overwhelming sense of dread and fear for no apparent reason. This kind of anxiety can disrupt your life.
Source: The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Bipolar disorder is a highly disruptive chronic mood disorder, yet two-thirds of the people aged 25 to 64 who have the condition are able to hold a job. Having someone to help with the practical necessities of life appears to be an important factor in distinguishing people who are employed from those who are not.
Source: Statistics Canada
Promotional campaigns, web sites, journals and networking groups targeting men and their mental health awareness are breaking the silence that has long surrounded this topic. But there is a long way to go before the depth and breadth of knowledge about men's mental health issues approaches that relating to women. Read on for more information.
Source: Canadian Health Network
The prevalence of panic disorder, by selected socio-demographic characteristics, is examined. Comparisons are made between people with a history of panic disorder and those who have never experienced this illness in relation to chronic physical conditions, other mental health disorders, work status and coping.
Source: Statistics Canada
For those who don’t self-harm, it can be difficult to understand why people would want to intentionally injure themselves. Self-harm is a broad term that refers to deliberate, self-damaging behaviour. It is sometimes called self-injury, self-mutilation, or self-abuse. It is deliberate, often repetitive actions to cause damage to skin, bones or other body parts.
Source: Canadian Health Network
This article presents prevalence estimates of social anxiety disorder (social phobia) among the Canadian household population aged 15 or older. The relationships between this mental disorder and others is examined.
Source: Statistics Canada
Tips on how to maintain good mental health
Source: Veterans Affairs
In today's media reports about mental illness, there is a tendency to emphasise a supposed link between violence and mental illness. But the majority of people who are violent do not suffer from mental illnesses. In fact, people with a mental illness are more likely to be the victims, rather than the perpetrators of violence.
Source: Canadian Mental Health Association
Young people learn to cope with emotions in different ways. Tears, anger, depression and withdrawal are some of the ways of responding to and finding relief from overwhelming feelings. Self injury, also called self harm and self abuse, refers to deliberate acts that cause harm to one's body, mind and spirit.
Source: Canadian Mental Health Association
Intended to reach out to Canadian families in need of information and resources to help their children to live through the process of separation and divorce. Also designed to assist professionals in such fields as social services, health, justice and education, in their work with children and their parents.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Winter Blues Cabin Fever Winter Doldrums Holiday Depression Winter Depression Many different names are used to describe this disorder of depression that worsens in the winter months. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) usually begins in late autumn and/or early winter and goes away in the summer months. Although SAD can affect anyone, especially those living in northern latitudes, young people and women are at the highest risk.
Source: Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN)
Describes major mental illnesses and outlines their incidence and prevalence, causation, impact, stigma, and prevention and treatment. Includes chapters on mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviour.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Critical review of the evidence base for "best practices" relevant to mental health reform, with a focus on chronic and severe mental illness, and a situational analysis of mental health reform policies, practices and initiatives in Canada which approximate "best practices". Implementation of best practices across entire systems of care. Recommendations for action.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Mental Health and Well-being, from the 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) provides cross-sectional estimates at provincial and national levels. Topics include the prevalence of various mental disorders (depression, mania, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia), mental health problems (alcohol and illicit drug dependence, gambling, suicide, eating trouble) and access to and use of mental health care services in the past 12 months. The survey also collects information on many determinants and correlates of mental health such as socio-demographic information, income, stress, medication use and social support. Data were collected from close to 37,000 respondents, aged 15 or older, residing in households in each province.
Source: Statistics Canada
Provides Canadian statistics of hospitalizations for mental disorders, by cause.
Source: Statistics Canada
Employee assistance programs and services for Canadian Para-public, Public Servants and their family members.
Source: Health Canada
This study examines eight measures of mental health and looks for associations with nine potential demographic and psychosocial determinants.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada's mental health publications cover stress, divorce, depression and manic depression, and other topics.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
There has been growing uncertainty as to the exact nature of the relationship between mental illness and violence, among caregivers, health care providers, and advocacy groups. To help shed light on this issue, this critical review of the literature was undertaken.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Covers the basic issues, methods and instruments, and fosters an understanding of what is needed to employ Quality of Life (QoL) measurement in a meaningful way in clinical practice, evaluation activities or research projects.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Features information on psychosocial impact of cancer on families.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
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