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Michael Kras
03 Aug 2022

Hamilton artist creates cookbook for those with depression

For those days where mental health can be a barrier to even the simplest self-care, an interdisciplinary Hamilton artist has created a special hybrid of a cookbook and zine. The cookbook is called Dep...

Craig Clark
05 Mar 2021

This youth centre in Grimsby got a Mike Holmes transformation

The FORT Youth Centre in Grimsby and West Lincoln will be featured on the season finale of Canadian home-reno star Mike Holmes’ newest series Holmes Family Effect. Each episode of the new series fea...

Michael Kras
04 Mar 2020

Ontario will offer free therapy for people with depression and anxiety

The province’s health ministry announced on Wednesday that it will soon be offering free therapy for anxiety and depression. The new program, called Mindability, will be funded just like OHIP (Ontar...

Oluseyi Olomodosi
08 Oct 2019

McMaster study offers new insights into treating mental illness

Researchers at Hamilton’s McMaster University believe their latest findings could offer new insights into potential treatment possibilities for mental illnesses in the future. In recent years, scien...

Sherry Avadiev
05 Jan 2018

Freeing the Unknown

Opening the conversation and eliminating fears My family’s experiences with mental illness over the past decade have left me with a number of learned lessons and deeper understandings around the...

Nata Di Bartolomeo
05 Jan 2018

The Lost Soul

The journey to motherhood, and the looming worries With the anticipation of waiting for that pregnancy test to turn positive, I was under the impression that getting pregnant was a one time easy go-at...

Dev Team
05 Jan 2018

A Blessing and a Curse

Trying to keep things at bay “It’s okay…” my fiancé whisper softly into my ear. “It’s okay you’ll be okay. You are strong, I know you are. I know you’re fighting every day.” He ...

Stephanie Cabildo
05 Jan 2018

Riding the Waves of Change

Anxiety, depression and the light at the end of the tunnel It started when I was 15 years old, in grade 10. Out of nowhere during random parts of the day or night I would experience sharp stabbing pai...

Sadie Wolfe
05 Jan 2018

Becoming Bipolar

Appointments, medications, and the ability to speak openly Depression is difficult. Mania was devastating. As a young twenty-something in 2015 I had a lot going on. At the time I had a post-secondary ...

Dev Team
05 Jan 2018

Honesty and Anxiety

Respecting your limitations I lie. I lie all the time. I struggle with anxiety and it makes me lie. No, that isn’t right. I struggle with anxiety and because I don’t know how to be completely hone...