Tag: suicide
Students act on mental health initiatives
In the days
following the tragic death of a student at the Bahen Centre on the St. George
Campus, the U of T community has taken...
Students meet following another student death at Bahen
The quotes in this article were taken from a transcript
of the Emergency Community Meeting on Mental Health and were not attributed to
any specific person....
24-hour wait times for students in crisis
Among the next steps for the growth of residence counselling are services offered in international languages and a new social work intern, mentioned at...
A new ambassador for suicide prevention
Hope after Suicide: One Woman’s Journey from Darkness to Light is a novel by Wendy Parmley about her mother’s traumatic suicide when Parmley was...
Hungry for more
In Daniel Barnz’s Cake, Jennifer Aniston plays Claire Bennett, a middle-aged woman suffering from trauma trying to cope with the suicide of a member...
Not crazy and not alone
If only they had known the truth about mental illness: It’s not weird. It’s not a weakness. It’s not something to hide.
Suicide by Facebook
Simone Back, a depressed woman of Brighton, East Sussex, UK, committed suicide on Christmas as her 1,000+ Facebook friends mocked a note she left...
Youth among the most heavily affected by mental illness
Mental Illness Awareness Week, an annual public campaign to acknowledge the reality of mental illness in Canada, is on now from October 3 to...
A wake-up call
Last week, I wondered why no one from the student union spoke up about the homophobic graffiti written on a student’s residence room door....