The past year has been wildly disruptive to community and social relationships. I did not expect to find more community in a year of so much isolation, but that’s what happened with the Mental Fitness Discord Server. It was totally unexpected. I only knew of Discord as something for video games. So when a viewer…
Bring your brain by the Toolkit Shop for the Tune-Up twice each month on Twitch. Working on recovery from mental illness and just generally building mental health and fitness skills isn’t something that needs to happen in isolation. It also doesn’t need to be some magical mystery. Mental health skills are practical, the challenges you’re…
While I was in India, I stopped by Bangalore to meet with the Wysa team. They’ve created my favourite chatbot to provide mental health support to people wherever and whenever they need it. You can check it out here: www.wysa.io I sat down with Jo Aggarwal, co-founder of Wysa, to take some mental health questions…
We could also call this: Recovery is like rowing. You’ll be bad at both until you’re not. And then you’ll just push harder. If you’re working with a personal trainer on your physical fitness, it’s not strange if you expect to work with somebody that’s in better shape than you, that practices the skills you…
It’s very popular in OCD patient communities, and in mental health communities in general, to get stuck on labeling superficial symptoms. But it becomes just another way to practice the judging and categorizing and discriminating that can fuel so many compulsions. A more effective approach to support recovery from OCD is to understand (and eliminate) the compulsive…
This past weekend I was at the Toronto Peer Health Network’s annual symposium to facilitate a workshop on peer engagement. There were around 60 student leaders in the workshop who run peer health education programs at universities and colleges around Toronto. They’re working with their peers right around the age when all sorts of mental and…