![adolescence, mental health, mental illness, depression, society, culture, personal, journey, suicide, isolation, aspiration](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/09/4D8FEB42-77F6-4E71-B254-6A9761037357-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
This Bengali film (translation: Generation “Me”) follows the everyday lives of two teenagers as they maneuver the turbulences of their final high school years, and…
![First Nations,-Aboriginal,-Indigenous,-Canadian,-Heritage,-Culture,-Identity,-Lakota,-Toronto,-Shared-Land](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/FirstNations-Aboriginal-Indigenous-Canadian-Heritage-Culture-Identity-Lakota-Toronto-Shared-Land-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“In today’s modern Society, cultural significance is dying out…As we go along, more and more Native culture is forgotten. What happened in history has made…
![Immigration,-Canada,-Filipino,-Philippines,-1.5-generation,-Mental-Health,-transition,-culture,-family,-ethnic-identity,-acculturation,-identity,-social-support](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/01/Immigration-Canada-Filipino-Philippines-1.5-generation-Mental-Health-transition-culture-family-ethnic-identity-acculturation-identity-social-support-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In 1994, my mother sponsored my brother’s immigration from the Philippines to Canada, where they settled in a predominantly Italian neighbourhood. Though my brother had…
![When Doctors are At-Risk for Suicide](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/07/feature-1-pic-illia-article-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
They had known each other well enough in the early days of medical school, when they were students studying well into the night. After graduation,…
![North Korean Defectors](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2018/04/fence-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The destitution in North Korea causes some defectors to make the intrepid escape to South Korea through China. Despite the shared language and culture, the…
![Power of Peers](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/09/16993351779_18222b47b8_k-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“Power of Peers” by the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network (GMHCN) describes the movement from isolation towards peer-oriented services in the mental health field in…
![Visually Impaired Artist Raises $1 Million for Charity](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/09/8-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Twenty-one year old artist Jeffrey Hanson was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis when he was only twelve years old. This rare condition caused a tumor on his…
![Still I Rise](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/07/Screenshot-2015-07-05-19.02.55-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“Still I Rise”, by Maya Angelou, is a poem about the adversity and racism faced by Angelou and many other African-American individuals throughout history. In…
![Virginity Tests Place Physicians in Quandary](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/12/mkkk-470x140.png?x81652)
In October of 2013, the College of Physicians in Quebec, Canada, ordered doctors to stop performing virginity tests on women. Remarkably, it took a formal…
![Book Review: “Pornland, How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality”](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2013/07/Body-3-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Claiming that mainstream porn is in the business of “making hate,” sociology and women’s studies professor Gail Dines at Wheelock College, Boston, has been a…