Mental Health Association: Margaret Trudeau

Mental Health Issues Dept: That same week, Margaret Trudeau, the former wife of the late prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was making the talk-show circuit rounds, speaking openly about her decades-long struggle with bipolar disorder and promoting her new book on the subject, Changing My Mind, according to Calgary Herald. It's a trend that many tackling mental health issues would say is long overdue. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, mental illness indirectly affects all Canadians, through a family member, friend or colleague; at least 20 per cent of Canadians will experience mental illness at some point in their lifetimes, with one in four being diagnosed with depression and while recently guest hosting on the CBC Radio One show Q, former Barenaked Ladies frontman Stephen Page spoke openly about his own public bout with mental illness, which prompted one of the biggest deluges of listener response the CBC had experienced in years. It wasn't all that long ago that such candid discussion would be considered taboo. The topic of mental health, though, is slowly but surely coming out of the shadows, thanks to the courage of such prominent Canadians as Page, Trudeau and Olympian Clara Hughes, the spokeswoman for to-day's Bell Let's Talk Day, an initiative to get Canadians talking about mental health in order to increase awareness and reduce its stigma. As reported in the news.
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