Book review: Memoirs describe same mental health battle, but oceans apart
Tina Neylon looks at two similar but also very different contributions to the discourse on mental health and depression one a memoir by a Dublin footballer, the other by a young man from Novia Scotia in Canada
Both memoirs are vivid accounts of the challenges faced by two young men to their mental health and their roads to recovery.
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Tina Neylon
THESE two books have a lot in common, although their authors have very different backgrounds and live on opposite sides of the Atlantic one in Dublin, the other in Canada.
Claritycon Children’s Mental Health Conference on July 23 to feature six renowned experts
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Clarity Child Guidance Center provides professional education and CEUs at Claritycon, its annual children s mental health conferences with three options for attendance: live in-person at studios of KLRN-PBS TV; live virtual or digital on-demand. Registration is now open for the July 23, 2021 session (from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.) which covers trauma, neglect, bullying, abuse, anxiety, discipline and depression from six children’s mental health experts, led by keynote speaker Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky.
Claritycon will cover trauma, neglect, bullying, abuse, anxiety, discipline and depression from six children’s mental health experts, led by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, In 2015, Lipsky was invited to give a TED talk one of the first delivered inside a women’s correctional facility.
WINDSOR, ONT. The Canadian Mental Health Association wants people ‘get real’ about their emotions this mental health week by diving into their feelings instead of numbing them. Monday is the start of CMHA Mental Health Week, and this year the organization is focusing on how understanding, expressing naming and dealing with our emotions can make feelings of sadness, anger and pain feel “less intense.” “Unfortunately, ignoring our unpleasant feelings, and going numb, just makes them dig their heels in,” a news release from CMHA Windsor-Essex County Branch states. “They can take us on a scary rollercoaster and make it hard to get a hold on them. Emotion science tells us that naming how we feel helps put the brakes on.”
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