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Diane shares insights and reflections on all aspects of mental healthcare, with the aim to educate, support, and inspire bold thinking and new ways of understanding. We hope you will enjoy this blog on mental healthcare and change.
Why Certain Psychiatric Medications Aren’t Always Available
Inaccurate reporting perpetuates the belief that every patient has high risk of discontinuation symptoms, across every antidepressant. My advice on best ways to choose and make most of antidepressants if part of your treatment.
Does Stopping an Antidepressant Cause Discontinuation Symptoms?
Inaccurate reporting perpetuates the belief that every patient has high risk of discontinuation symptoms, across every antidepressant. My advice on best ways to choose and make most of antidepressants if part of your treatment.
Celebrating the Mixed Emotions of Father’s Day
Father’s Day can be a joyful day for some and a complex and emotionally-charged day for others. This year I’m sharing reflections from my team on fathers and fatherhood.
Our Moral Imperative: Prioritizing Mental Health in Today’s Public Coverage and Tomorrow’s National Universal Pharmacare
Despite the prevalence and the severe impact mental illness can have on individuals’ lives, access to necessary medications remains a substantial challenge for many. Our thoughts on what should happen next. Published originally in The Hamilton Spectator.
A Psychiatrist’s Perspective: How Canada’s Mental Healthcare System Must Embrace Technology – Healthcare Summit 2023 Keynote
Dr. Diane McIntosh’s keynote at Reboot’s 23rd annual health care summit in Vancouver addressed the need to support our overloaded clinicians so they can deliver more effective, personalized and efficient mental healthcare.
The Rise of Lifestyle Medicine – Diane McIntosh and Bryn Hyndman talk about integrating lifestyle medicine into traditional medicine
Eating well, exercising, connecting with friends—these are the new doctor’s orders. Lifestyle medicine, essentially a prescription for the good habits, behaviours and choices we make as individuals, is a field of medicine that’s gaining traction. Dr. Diane McIntosh speaks with Dr. Bryn Hyndman.