mark henick ✍🏻

🗣 storyteller
📻 journalist
📖 bestselling author @HarperCollinsCa |
👨🏻‍🎓nerd @JournalismTMU @Cambridge_Uni @KingsIoPPN @EriksonInst @StThomasU

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

Bam! Bam! BAM! 💥 My book is way beyond all the modest stretch goals I set for it already. Everything else is just overflow gratitude now. Think we can get it into the Top 100? https://t.co/RKiMVZVb6f #books #amwriting #mentalhealth

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@TomPark1n I do like the city hall parking garage system. When I just want to go north on line 1 to Yonge and Eg, my brain just won’t remember whether it’s Finch or Vaughan. If finch had a little bird I might

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The rise in remote work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has substantially increased time spent alone and worsened workers’ mental health, according to a new study in Science based on survey data from more than 500,000 Americans.

📄: https://t.co/vdwEwt4pb0
#SciencePerspective: https://t.co/nJT87Isr3N

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

Parliament asked CAMAP for the curriculum to train MAID assessors for mental illness.

The organization said it’s “impossible” to provide it—and won’t make it public.

Health Canada gave 3.3 million dollars to CAMAP for its curriculum development.

Transparency shouldn't be optional.

@meagangillmore
https://t.co/GQNp3LJPtu

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Home alone. Remote work can adversely influence mental health. A new study @ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/sXlG0LEJGq
https://t.co/b7cq4e0hZy

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Being alive at all is the most extraordinary stroke of good luck any of us will ever experience, the physicist Alan Lightman writes: “The question is: What are we to make of the fantastically improbable fact of our existence, our moment of life?” https://t.co/MFmol1dRvL

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

The narrative that MAiD provides a peaceful, beautiful death every time is false.

One patient cried "help me" and showed signs of distress during MAiD. Bradley Stewart resumed breathing after being declared dead, leaving his family traumatized. In one study, one-third of family members described the MAiD death as traumatic.

Informed consent requires disclosure of complications and adverse outcomes, not just promises of a beautiful death.

My comments in Sharon Kirkey's National Post article 👇
https://t.co/iOlAnSExYt

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Patients hospitalized with depression in brighter southeast-facing rooms were discharged after 29.2 days on average, compared with 58.8 days in northwest-facing rooms.

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@BasedPsychMD One of the co-authors of 329 is a Canadian senator now

[CP24 @CP24]

#NEW: Study suggests more Canadian kindergartners are experiencing developmental vulnerabilities after COVID-19
https://t.co/V9xWRV7tq7

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@MarjettiPaints Love the contrast in this one, a joyful surprise

[Trudo Lemmens @TrudoLemmens]

@cpso_ca imposes 'remedial measures on family doc who used incomplete #MAID #euthanasia kit & had to return to finish job + assesses person w Crohn's & depression @ TimHortons & drives him to cadaver storage unit for injection, against family objections https://t.co/6JrqUrv34S

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

The healing power of nature reduces stress, anxiety and depression https://t.co/RZPfKOxK7S

[Inclusion Canada @InclusionCA]

Ninety disability and mental health organizations have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Carney and Parliamentarians urging them to permanently exclude people with mental illness from eligibility for assisted suicide.

Under current law, people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness will become eligible to apply for assisted suicide beginning in March 2027.

The letter, which is addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Health Minister Marjorie Michel and Justice Minister Sean Fraser, says that would be "a significant and misguided expansion."

Inclusion Canada's Krista Carr spoke with Postmedia News. She also called for the discriminatory Track 2 access point of assisted suicide to be repealed because it singles out persons with disabilities.

https://t.co/ZR00qYEVfG

#cdnpoli #MAID

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

A systematic overview and second-order meta-analysis of nature-based interventions for stress, anxiety and depression https://t.co/H0i74dYmdt

[PsyPost.org @PsyPost]

A new machine learning analysis reveals how childhood trauma can amplify genetic vulnerabilities to depression, uncovering thousands of biological interactions that traditional statistical methods have consistently missed. https://t.co/fi9BOvMTUv

[Inclusion Canada @InclusionCA]

Inclusion Canada has joined 89 disability and mental health organizations in urging the federal government to permanently exclude individuals with mental illnesses from accessing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID).

In an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, along with Ministers, MPs and Senators, the groups argue that inadequate support systems make the expansion dangerous for individuals.

The letter is signed by organizations located in all provinces and territories. Inclusion Canada continues to call on the government to repeal the separate pathway to assisted death that is specifically for persons with disabilities. Track 2 MAID is discriminatory. Story by @kkirkup of @globeandmail.

https://t.co/a12bFq3ZIb

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

a variation of the Ouchi illusion

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

I enjoyed taking part in @TheCurrentCBC. Fellow guests, both psychiatrists, welcomed HHS proposals and made some sensible points, but maintained that people with depression have 'maladaptive brains' that antidepressants restore. This idea is the root of the problem and until it is overturned, reform will have little effect on psychiatric practice. @flint_books https://t.co/eT10jMyOqX

[Inclusion Canada @InclusionCA]

Ninety disability and mental-health organizations are calling for the federal government to permanently halt the expansion of Canada's assisted suicide law for individuals whose sole condition is mental illness.

The groups, including Inclusion Canada and its provincial and territorial partners, have sent a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel, asking them to introduce legislation that prevents the expansion of #MAID.

A temporary pause on that expansion is due to expire next March.

Inclusion Canada CEO Krista Carr spoke with The Canadian Press about the letter. She also outlined how the separate pathway of MAID for persons with disabilities, called Track 2, is discriminatory and must also be repealed.

From 2021-2024, 2,050 people died from Track 2 MAID according to the most recent statistics from Health Canada.

Please join our efforts. Get in touch with your MP and Senators and urge them to end this discrimination against persons with disabilities.

https://t.co/Q3gY0NOrB8. #cdnpoli #euthanasia

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@TrudoLemmens This is so horrifying. What a ghoulish disregard for humanity.