anxiety
Video games that helped me cope with health anxiety
March 13, 2024By: Abbey Perley, Assistant Production Editor Content 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 will kill me. This thinking defines large chunks of my life by rendering me physically and mentally weak for days or weeks in a row, despite how unfounded my worries are. It can even create new physical symptoms that I never had to begin with to convince me that I’m seriously ill. When these…
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Opinions in Dialogue: Living with chronic mental illnesses
July 5, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici and Isabella Urbani, Staff Writers Mental 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…
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BC youth tackle eco-anxiety in new digital zine
January 10, 2023By: Simran Sarai, Sports Writer The 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…
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Health and counselling offers seminar on climate change anxiety
November 2, 2022By: Pranjali J Mann, News Writer SFU’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…
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SFU researcher publishes first study on climate change’s effects on mental health
March 8, 2022By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate SFU 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…
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My experience as an athlete with anxiety
March 3, 2022By: Maya Beninteso, Peak Associate For the last five years, I’ve dedicated my life to the sport I fell in love with: netball. I literally stumbled upon the sport on crutches. After sustaining an injury from basketball, I needed to…
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How to ease anxiety during finals season
November 23, 2021by Marco Ovies, Features Editor As 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.…
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Pandemic restrictions have lasting effects on childcare workers in BC
November 20, 2021By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer SFU 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. …
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Mental health advocacy doesn’t equal visibility for everyone
May 26, 2021By: Carter Hemion, Staff Writer Mental 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…
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Monday Music: A Late Night Folk-Pop Balm for Anxious Minds
September 28, 2020By: Emma Jean, Staff Writer Light some candles, listen to the rain, and put on this mellow mix of warm, gentle songs. With a focus on artists who are Canadian, queer, and/or Black, this playlist is perfect for a night…
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