Today, Canadians from coast to coast to coast will work to raise awareness about mental health issues, as part of the Bell Let’s Talk initiative. This is an issue that the Liberal Party has long been seized with, advocating in Parliament for greater investment in mental health care, and fighting to reduce the stigma and discrimination faced by individuals who suffer from mental illness.
Liberal Leader Bob Rae continued that conversation today, rising in the House to deliver a Member’s Statement on mental health.
On this day, it also bears remembering this poignant speech by Liberal MP for Scarborough-Guildwood John McKay (delivered in October 2012 as part of the House of Commons debate on the Liberal Opposition Day Motion calling for a National Suicide Prevention Strategy), who discusses his family’s struggles coping with his son’s Schizophrenia.
You can also have a look at #BellLetsTalk and #BellCause on Twitter.
A lot Mental Health to those who suffer!Maria Parascheva
Not all are willing nor capable of having the factualties to perform in todays society. Let us give help to those that could use a hand along the way,
When one lives in a Society that excludes Illuminatti,Them or as the RCMP always refer to as Hell’s Angels to me. Phsyciatrists being totaly un aware of this reality and trained by 40 year old medical journels it is very hard to distinguish just who is, or who is not suffering from mental illness.I feel a lot of times the police just use cycwards as dumping grounds for people who are upset about abuses they have suffered.People just need some one to talk to about there problems some times. Doctors to often are apt just to perscribe drugs as opposed to investigate any real solutions.Drugs may help some cases in some circumstances but many of them have deadly heath side effects.It seems to me pharamcutical corperations have doctors brain washed into accepting the best solution is alway drugs.