‘Phobia’, a short film by Jordy Templeman, describes the everyday struggles of a man suffering from a phobia of open spaces. This film portrays the extreme…
2014 could not have been easy for anyone with a fear of flying. The inexplicable disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, the shooting down of…
‘Scars’, a song by artist Allison Iraheta, describes her personal journey through emotional abuse and depression. The lyrics depict the sense of hopelessness and confusion she…
Directed by Dani Fray of the York University Department of Theatre, Film, and Television, “OCD” is a short fillm that follows the average morning of…
In Nepal, the incidence of human trafficking has grown in the past decade. Each year, over 7,000 women and girls are trafficked out to India,…
‘Anxiety’ is an oil-on-canvas painting created by Edvard Munch in 1894. Many believe that the painting closely resembles Munch’s famous work titled ‘The Scream’. The…
In this TedTalk from 2011, JD Schramm–a Stanford University business professor–addresses the need to break the silence around suicide. He also makes an appeal for…
It seems so paradoxical. After all the stress, paperwork, home assessments, and expenses that go into adopting a child, the final approval ought to be…
“One of My Turns” by Pink Floyd is an eerie song describing the instant an individual goes from being stable to having a psychotic breakdown….
David Feingold is an artist who was hit by a car when he was a child and sustained a significant traumatic brain injury, which led…
‘Trellis’ documents the agony and trauma of young girl reacting to her friend’s sexual assault. The poet, Andrew Gibson uses vivid imagery and rhetoric to…
Rascal Flatt’s “Why?” documents indescribable pain and grief felt by a family after losing a loved one to suicide. The lyrics “Why, that’s what I…
At the age of three, Gale started to challenge gender norms, insisting on wearing dresses and tiaras, by age four sobbing at his mirror image…
In this TedTalk given at the University of Waterloo, Alicia Raimundo details her own experiences of overcoming suicidal ideation and suicide attempt as a young…
Recent headlines about suicide, domestic violence, and shootings have brought to public awareness the mental health strain that is placed on the men and women…
Andrea Gibson is an award-winning poet and activist, whose poetry focuses on gender norms, social reform, and mental health challenges faced by individuals in the…
What if physical difficulties were treated the same way as mental health problems? This short video cleverly brings attention to the misconceptions about mental health,…
On September 10th, 2015, Stephanie Lembo posted a heartbreaking video on her Facebook page that has received nearly twenty-three million views and the attention of…
“Tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my retribution against humanity, against all of you.” Elliot Rodger spoke these…
‘Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone’, by W.H. Auden, appears to be a poem written from the perspective of someone mourning the loss of…
