mental health
Stand Up for Mental Health
Looking to spice up your AGM or next meeting? Consider asking the Toronto “Stand up for Mental Health” Troupe to perform. This is a group of 15 dynamic individuals who use stand up comedy to cope with the symptoms and issues of mental illness.
Created in Vancouver, by comic David Granirer, author of The Happy Neurotic: How Fear and Angst Can Lead to Happiness and Success, Stand up for Mental Health assists individuals with mood disorders “empower themselves by taking their stress and trauma and turning it into a comedy routine.”
Ontario Inclusion Learning Network - Mental Health, Diversity and Equity
A Report of the January 16, 2008 Learning Exchange
One in five people in Ontario will experience mental illness at some point in their lives. But statistics such as this do not reveal the complex ways in which poverty; violence, racism, homophobia, sexism and other factors complicate each individual’s experience of mental illness. They also do nothing to address the limitations of the kinds of healing that are available and accessible to persons living with a mental illness.
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