Like the Rube Goldberg machine, where every part of the apparatus is essential to its final outcome, every sphere of your life is essential, too.
Mental Health
To lose the campus walk-in, is to lose the one place on campus where students in crisis could go for immediate support — no online forms, phone intakes, or months of waiting.
Spring cleaning is back in season, but how can you incorporate it to better your mental health?
Exams are approaching, it’s easy to feel burnt out, exhausted, and deflated. So how can we recharge our batteries to feel prepared and refreshed? A deep spring clean.
“As the university advisor on mental health, I felt compelled to write to address some of your concerns,” writes Elizabeth Kristjansson, the University of Ottawa’s advisor on mental health.
“I realized I needed to write a piece representing the voices of my present, and to the best of my ability, former colleagues who have dedicated much time and energy to covering the mental health crisis on campus — often at the detriment of their own mental health.”
Explorative research by Michael Murack finds that chronic sleep disruption causes depression in adolescents.
Recommendations include singing Okanagan Charter, creating physical mental health and wellness centre on campus and creating a research cluster.
“This is a great way for people to deal with the mental aspect … we think of a lot of young people aren’t having as much socialization as they once had because there’s no school, there’s no university,” said Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng.
“Whenever I was struggling with the thought of wanting to hurt myself, or wanting to go out and drink, I would bead until I didn’t feel that way anymore,” said Cassidy Copenace, a 21 year-old living in Naotkamegwanning First Nation. “Even if I was beading all night, and if I was tired, I would just keep going until I was either super tired, or I just didn’t feel the way I did before I started doing my beadwork.”
“I think always being honest and always being open to whatever people have to tell me and being honest about synthesizing that information and bringing it forward. I don’t have a whip, I don’t have much power, but I do have people listening to me,” says Elizabeth Kristjansson, the University of Ottawa’s new advisor on mental health and wellness
“There’s increased stress and anxiety among students because of the disruption and uncertainty caused by COVID-19,” said Rita Notarandrea, ceo of CCSA.
‘I’m literally holding people’s hands while they die because their family members can’t be there and I’m burying bodies, but you’re going to party with your friends and you’re the reason why these people are dying. That was really, really tough for me.’ says Alexis Snell a fourth-year nursing student
In a report conducted by the Canadian Institute for Health Information in 2010, 44 per cent of the sampled seniors who lived in long-term care had a diagnosis or reported symptoms of depression.
Two University of Ottawa students, Eve Staszczyszyn and Livia Han have worked with students from the University of Waterloo BETS Program and the Queen’s Center for Advanced Computing to develop Wellness World; a portal aimed to combat the mental health crisis centered around the U of O community.
For the second consecutive year, the University of Ottawa cracked the top 150 of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings but dropped down four spots from 141st to 145th.
We’re interviewing candidates for the upcoming University of Ottawa Board of Governors’ elections for undergraduate student representative which will take place from June 2-4. Here’s why incumbent Saada Hussen believes she deserves your vote.
In a year riddled with crises, the attention of university administrations is understandably divided. But as the global COVID-19 pandemic has wracked the student population with isolation and grief, it’s now more important than ever that the university’s efforts to address the mental health crisis are not lost.
Second-year student Camelia Skaf says that she’s been handcuffed twice on campus since February after Ottawa police were called by Protection Services. Skaf says that her experiences highlight a lack of mental health training in the university’s Protection Services.
A University of Ottawa student was found dead in one of the school’s on-campus residences on Saturday. The death is not linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For the @GeeGeesMHKY team, the 2019-20 season was about finishing what they started. The Gees travelled to Halifax… https://t.co/nOoyhVZGc5
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