Bell says this year’s Let’s Talk Day set new records with more messages and engagement than ever before.
In a release, the Montreal-based telecom company said total talk, text and social media interactions were up 3.1 percent over last year’s Let’s Talk Day. Further, the hashtag ‘#BellLetsTalk’ topped Twitter’s trending list both in Canada and worldwide.
In total, Bell says people shared 159,173,435 messages of support. The company pledged to donate $0.05 per message, which means it will donate $7,958,671.75 to mental health. Bell says its total funding commitment now stands at $121,373,806.75, which is on track to meet its $155 million target.
Posted: Jan 07, 2021 5:04 PM AT | Last Updated: January 7
Dr. Michael Flynn is a psychiatrist at the Nova Scotia Hospital in Dartmouth. (Contributed by the QEII Foundation)
Two Nova Scotia hospitals will soon offer a new type of treatment for depression, PTSD and other mental health disorders.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, which involves sending short, magnetic pulses to the brain to stimulate nerve cells, will be offered at the Nova Scotia Hospital in Dartmouth and the Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville. Anything that s going to impact positively is a huge benefit, said Dr. Michael Flynn, a psychiatrist at the Nova Scotia Hospital. The key is it s now accessible. You can have the best treatment, but if you can t access it, it s not being optimized.