anxiety
Learning about yourself can save your life
October 12, 2026Content warning: discussions of suicide. Checking in on your mental health should be a daily practice, not just something to return to during hardship. Suicide Prevention Month in September reminded us to acknowledge the risk of suicide among ourselves, friends, and family. But this should be an ongoing practice all year long. Since it’s taboo, this topic can feel difficult to talk about. However, if nobody talks about suicide, then the stigma remains. Discussions about suicide do not encourage it. In fact, these conversations allow for the sharing of life-saving information and remind those who face suicidal ideation that they…
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Video games that helped me cope with health anxiety
March 13, 2024Content warning: mentions of illness and death. Illness anxiety, previously called hypochondria, is a type of anxiety where the affected person constantly believes they have a serious medical problem. For me, every new freckle signals cancer, and the common cold…
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Opinions in Dialogue: Living with chronic mental illnesses
July 5, 2023Mental illness can tear you down. There’s moments when you wonder where the vision of you who wasn’t so impacted by your mind is. At first, mental illness feels manageable. Like it was just a minor character who needed to…
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BC youth tackle eco-anxiety in new digital zine
January 10, 2023The effects of the climate crisis are disproportionate for minorities and low income countries. In BC, communities have suffered damage and death from extended wildfire seasons, flooding, and heat waves. Although the fight for climate justice continues, many people, especially…
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Health and counselling offers seminar on climate change anxiety
November 2, 2022SFU’s Health and Counselling and registered clinical psychologist Dr. Shona Adams hosted a seminar on “Climate Change Anxiety and Grief.” Hosted in a hybrid model, the seminar focused on strategies to cope with anxiety related to climate change. The seminar…
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SFU researcher publishes first study on climate change’s effects on mental health
March 8, 2022SFU health science assistant professor Kiffer Card and a team of health and psychology researchers from the Mental Health and Climate Change Alliance recently concluded a study outlining the effects of climate change on British Columbians’ mental health.The research is…
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How to ease anxiety during finals season
November 23, 2021As someone with anxiety, this is the absolute worst time of the semester for me. I’m hot off the heels of finishing a bunch of essays and now have to start worrying about final exams. It’s very easy to start…
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Pandemic restrictions have lasting effects on childcare workers in BC
November 20, 2021SFU health sciences research associate Dr. Julia Smith recently published her findings on how social and governmental responses to the pandemic have overlooked childcare workers. In an interview with The Peak, Smith discussed her findings. Smith’s research looks at the…
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Mental health advocacy doesn’t equal visibility for everyone
May 26, 2021Mental health awareness is vital to mitigating stigma around mental illnesses and improving access to health care, but awareness gestures often leave people out of the conversation. General mental health advocacy leaves out the most marginalized voices and their lived…
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It’s time that we rethink the necessity of exams in classrooms
July 18, 2020SFU recently announced that the final exam schedule for all classes will be released in October, rather than at enrollment. The change hopes to reduce course conflicts, back-to-back exams, and same-day exams. However, it also adds to student stress about…
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