Shawn Achor, a Harvard scholar and positive psychologist, speaks at TEDx regarding the benefits of prioritizing happiness. In attempting to dispel the illusion that people must…
The song “Otherside” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis narrates a story about drug use and the descent into addiction. As a young man, Macklemore struggled…
People struggling with mental illness are often told to “get over it”. In this cartoon, Dima Dupéré rejects this misconception and sheds light on how…
After 17 years of silence, Sue Klebold recounts that fateful day in Littleton, Colorado when her son Dylan and his friend Eric Harris committed one…
This series of in-depth interviews covers the difficulties that homeless men and women face with mental illness and drug abuse. A man named Cameron from…
Carly Simon’s song “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” chronicles the painful aftermath of growing up with parents in an unhappy marriage,…
Gustave Courbet’s “The Desperate Man” is a self-portrait that alludes to a connection between artistic genius and psychological distress, a common theme in the Romantic…
Performing for Toronto during the semi-finals at the 2014 National Poetry Slam, Sabrina Benaim shares her raw experience with depression, disclosing what she has endured…
At one time or another, we may realize that something a friend or family member has said is ‘off’. Neuroscientist Mariano Sigman has taken this…
The song “The Handler” by the band Muse depicts the torment the mind undergoes when being forcibly controlled by an external force. The lyrics describe…
