Mental Health Week and Clara Hughes

This week, May 5 -11 is Mental Health Week and the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) wants to know how you are really feeling. They are launching the first-ever Be Mind Full initiative and are asking Canucks: Are you fine or are you phine?

Fine means saying you are fine when you are. Phine means saying you are fine when you are not fine. Too often people claim to be feeling fine when they do not. The result: approximately seven million Canadians — 20 per cent of the population — live with mental illness. And many do not seek treatment because of the stigma and discrimination associated with mental health problems.

Mental health is more than the absence of mental illness. It’s a state of well-being.

For more information and downloadable resources on your mental health visit https://mentalhealthweek.cmha.ca

While we are on the subject of mental health, it’s time to mark your calendar for six-time Olympian Clara Hughes’ visit to North Bay on Saturday June 28, at 4 p.m.

Nipissing University is a community sponsor for Clara’s Big Ride - Bell Let’s Talk – North Bay Championship Weekend June 28 - 29.  For more information, click here.

Interested in hearing Clara Hughes speak at the North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation Fundraising Dinner? Call 705-495-8125 for tickets! 

Interested in volunteering for Clara’s Big Ride in North Bay?  Contact Jodee Brown Yeo at jodeeb@nipissingu.ca?

For more information about Clara’s Big Ride - campaign to end the stigma surrounding mental illness, click here.