Mental health

Doing Improv Can Boost Your Confidence

Social work research suggests three ways the activity boosts self-esteem

From Anxiety to Action

U of T students are collaborating with faculty on research that could improve the mental health of youth worldwide

Blurring the Blue Line

Student Rachel Bromberg and alum Asante Haughton are helping to create a response service for mental health crisis calls in Toronto that relies less on police

Eliminating Excessive Force

U of T Mississauga professor Judith Andersen’s training techniques improve police performance in tense situations. The challenge: getting police to use them

Who Cares for the Caregivers?

There is a steep personal cost to caregiving, from chronic stress to physical injury. How can we help those who minister to family and friends?

How to Choose a Nutritious “Digital Diet”

Three suggestions for maintaining a healthy relationship with technology

Placing Counsellors Where Students Need Them

Mental health services are now offered at more than 20 faculties and colleges

The Labatt Family Network Will Examine the Biology of Depression

Scientists will focus on how the illness affects the brain

Mental Health in the Workplace

Depression and anxiety affect about one in five. How do we help the person who could be affected in the cubicle next to us?

How to Be Grateful

When I was battling depression, it was a small moment that helped me begin to find my way out

Help Through the Darkness

The wait-lists for publicly funded therapy are long. Kate Scowen devised a way for people to receive low-cost counselling sooner

Why Do So Many Students Suffer From Imposter Syndrome?

New U of T research suggests ways to combat feeling like a fraud

Suppressing Our Most Fearful Memories

Research on mice reveals that specific memories can be weakened. Could this one day help treat the effects of trauma in humans?

A Prisoner No More

My eating disorder felt like a life sentence. Now recovered, I help other people overcome theirs

In Playing Music, A Cure for the Blues

During one of life’s darker moments, I found purpose in learning something new

Paula Goering Boldly Helped Those in Need

Alum and prof helped people grappling with mental illness and homelessness

Healthy Minds

As U of T responds to a rise in mental health needs on campus, a powerful source of help emerges: students themselves

A New Strategy for Student Mental Health

Landmark U of T report calls for a “systems approach” to mental health on campus

Healthy City

How can we improve the health of some of the city's most vulnerable residents?

The Bully Who is Everywhere

The Internet makes it easy to be mean. No wonder cyberbullying among teens has everyone worried.

Mind Games

Doctors have been trying for decades to classify mental illnesses. So why do precise definitions still elude us?

The Sixth Age

The sixth age shifts into the lean and slippered Pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side