Editorial | Mental health must be a priority during next Ontario campaign

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StarEditorialBoard: The consequences of the pandemic are washing over us in painful ways and are likely to do so for a generation. Plans for mental health services and how to fund them should be top of mind during the next Ontario election.

The next designated “Let’s Talk Day” on mental health should be the day this spring that Premier Doug Ford visits the lieutenant governor to trigger an Ontario election.The crisis that is mental health care in this province should be a paramount issue for those who seek to govern. For the simple reason that it affects just about everything.

A health-care system that didn’t come close to meeting demand even before the pandemic, has been overwhelmed., the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s latest national survey showed levels of anxiety, depression and substance use surging along with the Omicron variant’s rapid spread. There are obvious reasons, explained Dr. Samantha Wells, a senior director of research at CAMH who helped lead the survey.

It has left people disoriented, isolated and exhausted, with relationships strained and families distressed as they try to cope with disrupted education, perilous work environments, financial uncertainty.

 

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