File Photo Last week was Mental Health Week, and the focus will continue with May being Mental Health Awareness Month. People from across Canada were told to #GetReal by the Canadian Mental Health Association. Kim Simoneau, the former mental health program coordinator for Sask Abilities Partners of Mental Health and Well-Being, explains what they mean. “It’s talking about promoting everybody to recognize their emotions and the feelings that they experience. They want people to open up and have open and honest conversations about how they are feeling with others. They are trying to enforce not to bottle up everything inside and trying to hide our feelings but instead talk openly about it so we can destress, de-escalate, and decompress,” she said. “When we talk about our feelings and our emotions, we feel a lot better, and we feel like weights are being lifted, and it really is a contributing factor to positive mental health.”