The 150-page mental health strategy released Tuesday by the Mental Health Commission of Canada is making the rounds at Niagara’s public health department, Pathstone Mental Health and other groups. Dr. Andrea Feller, an associate medical officer of health at the public health department, said the more aware and vocal the public becomes, the greater the odds are that the strategy’s recommendations will become reality. “We need to tackle this as a society,” Feller said. “Right now, we don’t live in a culture that looks at mental health as a priority.”
Cynthia Galipeau, 26, is a psychology student at Brock University. She has thought a lot about her relationship with food. At first, or so she thought, food allowed her control of a world that was spinning out of control. She decided what to put in her mouth. She had power over it. The name given to her distorted relationship with food is bulimia. Not the typical binging and throwing up type. But one that involved a teeter-totter of gorging, starving and depression.
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Ellis Katsof, CEO of Pathstone Mental Health, Niagara's only youth and child mental health service describes how fragmented mental health care is in Canada: “Each province and each region works on its own. There is best practice, of course, and what we do is not done in isolation."