National Depression Screening Day at Concordia
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Thursday, Oct. 7, will mark Concordia’s fifth consecutive year participating in National Depression Screening Day. As always, Counselling and Development and Health Services will host this event on both campuses.
This event is really a mental health awareness day, a friendly and welcoming event where the emphasis is placed on encouraging a healthy lifestyle as a preventative measure.
Students, staff and faculty can get information on depression, anxiety, stress or any number of symptoms that affect their lives or those of families or friends.
Do you suspect that you might have symptoms of depression or anxiety? To find out, you can complete a short screening questionnaire and get feedback from the counsellors and nurses on hand.
The questionnaire will tell you if your symptoms are numerous or severe enough to warrant further investigation. If this is the case, you will be referred for follow-up with a health care professional.
Maybe you simply want more information on depression or anxiety because you’ve heard so much about them in the news and media and you want to separate the myths from the facts. In that case, you will find reams of information in the form of handouts and pamphlets.
What else is available at National Depression Screening Day? You will find information on many topics which affect mental health in general, such as stress, anger, addictions, relationships, communication, trauma, crisis, self-image, seasonal affective disorder and many others.
The positive feedback from attendees in previous years suggests that you should attend.
National Depression Screening Day will take place Thursday Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at SGW library atrium and at Loyola in AD-103.
Related workshops which you might want to attend at Counselling and Development are: Looking at Depression, a five-session workshop beginning Oct. 12, from 1 - 2:30; Understanding Depression, Sept. 29; 1– 2; and Understanding Panic and Anxiety, Nov. 10; 1– 2. You can get more information on these workshops and others at cdev.concordia.ca
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