Friendship, music and laughter are what bring people together at the Dual Diagnosis Centre at Providence Care, a vibrant and energetic activities room filled with costumes, games, arts and crafts, and comfy chairs. This is the home of a caring ...

Amanda hasn’t had what you call a “charmed life”.  It would be right of you to think she struggled, just based on her past.  She was born to a drug addicted mother, given up for adoption, sexually abused, was epileptic, ...

Is exercising a useful form of treatment for depression and anxiety? A pilot research study out of St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) and McMaster University aims to answer that question in teens and young adults with a running therapy group. The ...

A study released in January, 2010 examined stress levels at four Ottawa hospitals. It suggested that stress is associated with poor physical and mental health, conflict between family life and work, and declining relationships between people at work and at ...

Tough love is a piece of cake for Ian Gallacher – these days; But not because of his forte for flambé or his one-of-a-kind crème brûlée. “I am the luckiest person in the world because of the staff, physicians and volunteers in ...

Zee knows he won’t be here forever. He knows one day he will go home, back out into the world that exists beyond the hospital walls and he wants to be ready for that day, in more ways than one.  ...

Each Wednesday and Friday at Peterborough Regional Health Centre, mental health inpatients and outpatients gather in a group room to participate in an unusual form of therapy: yoga class. The yoga therapy program was brought to PRHC in 2008 by Julie ...

Countering the stigma of mental illness, especially in certain communities, has been an ongoing mission of the Mental Health Services Department of The Scarborough Hospital. One of those communities – a large Chinese population located around the Birchmount campus of TSH ...

“My dad had a farm,” explains James, a client in the Law and Mental Health program at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). James has been involved with FoodShare’s Sunshine Garden program at CAMH since the winter of ...

Mental health care in Southwestern Ontario is transforming. As part of a government directive, patients are receiving services closer to their home communities. This transformation has been more than 15 years in the making and is a complex and challenging ...