Our web-exclusive video series, Voices of Mental Illness – profiles of people that suffer from mental illness and addiction but refuse to surrender – continues: Matt Watts opens up about his struggle with generalized anxiety and panic disorder.
Mental Health Matters is anchored by five nights of The Agenda with Steve Paikin, welcoming some of the brightest minds in the international mental health community to discuss and debate mental health issues.
On April 16th, TVO kicks off our Mental Health Matters special – an in-depth exploration of the state of mental health in our society. Here is a sneak peak of of our web-exclusive video series: Voices of Mental Illness, profiles of people that suffer from mental illness and addiction but refuse to surrender.
Marc Lewis knows addiction. He understands addiction well, not because he’s a neuroscientist who has been studying what pathways light up in the brain while it is in the clutches of the substance or behaviour it craves. No, Marc Lewis understands the desires that underpin addiction because he has lived the life of an addict.
On March 20, 2012, The Agenda, in our second installment of mental health-related programming, tackled antidepressants. How much do we really know about Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)?
Journalists are often criticized for being too entranced by the game of politics. But few journalists have studied political life in as serious a way as our own Steve Paikin.