Mutual Aid is Part of Our Past—and Our Future, Too
Mutual aid work filled me with a hope I didn’t know I needed. I needed a way back to a sense of community I had lost in the months spent in isolation.
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No Match for Love: The Church & Suicide
The church has a bad track record dealing with mental illness, and those who have lost loved ones to suicide. I know because I saw it happen to my father.
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Mad Pride arrives on the Rock
Group launches initiative to celebrate madness and advocate for experience-based understandings of mental health.
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An Open Letter to Cathy Bennett Concerning Anxiety
“Respectfully, Minister Bennett, the anxiety that you are currently witnessing pre-exists this budget. Your budget has inflamed it.”
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Let’s talk about Bell
“This type of corporate fundraising has become necessary because as a society we are underfunding and undervaluing public services and community organizations.”
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The Indy’s Top 15 of 2015
See which articles and topics Independent readers cast an eye over most in 2015.
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“This is a crisis”: Mental health and the 2015 Election
How the parties plan to address the province’s mental health and addiction crisis.
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The colonial roots of mental health and addiction among Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Next time someone complains about “drunken Indians” or makes a “gas-sniffing” joke, remember how the legacy of systematic neglect, abuse, abduction, rape and genocide of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people persists today — and how we’re doing very little about it.
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Healing spiritual and emotional trauma through dance
Dance Thru It, a new program developed by a St. John’s resident, helps release internal stress through physical movement.
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Vigil remembers Waterford victims and survivors, calls for new hospital
Amid urgent calls for new mental health facilities and implementation of the ‘recovery model’ of mental healthcare in N.L., people and groups continue to explain the problems and solutions to policy-makers, who have been saying for decades the hospital is coming “soon”.
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A Time to Remember and Stand
Remembering The Waterford, those we have lost, and the tired explanations of the past.
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On sexual violence, gender oppression and mental health
“People feel that they can’t safely disclose to anyone the violence that they have experienced and repress it, try to live with it, internalize it, blame themselves for it, and learn that it’s how the world is and it’s what they deserve, until that kind of internal toxicity becomes too much to bear.”
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Waterford Hospital: Closing since 1971
“The lunatics of 2015…will be digging no more trenches because those who are responsible for the health and well-being of the people of this province fail. We will work in an entirely different way.”
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The disease of stigma and the power of discernment
A reflection on the power of mindfulness and compassion in unravelling the complex nature of stigma around mental health
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Nothing can stop us now
A sea change in the province’s mental health movement indicates unprecedented momentum
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Grassroots movement lays path for mental health justice
The House of Assembly proceedings of Jan. 21 weren’t only a win for democracy, they were a victory for the thousands province wide who don’t have access to adequate mental health care services and want to see meaningful change
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2014: Newfoundland & Labrador ‘Year in Review’
We need a ‘bigger picture’ perspective if we’re to achieve the large scale change we desperately need. The Independent was there to cover the stories that mattered most in 2014. Help us do it again this year: #GoIndy2015!
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Mental health and Christmas
The trouble with expectations
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Best gift to yourself? Self-care!
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Short, tragic… meaningful
Ashley Smith: What the death of one means to many
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