Life Unscripted - Stories of Mental Health and Addiction
Life Unscripted has one goal - to break down stigma by sharing the inspiring stories of people living with mental illness and addiction. Shame and fear often stop people who really need help from reaching out. COVID 19 has created a mental health and addiction pandemic. For many, anxiety is now part everyday life. Alcohol and drug use has increased as people try to cope. Host Janice Arnoldi has lived with bi-polar (manic depression) disorder for more than 30 years. She has a half hour radio show and speaks regulary to groups about mental illness.
Life Unscripted - Stories of Mental Health and Addiction
Latest Episodes
A Dramatic Increase in Violence Investigations Are Rising In Niagara - Why?
There's been a shocking 57.8% jump in intimate partner violence investigations in Niagara in two years. Jennifer Guathier, executive director of Birchway women's shelter talks about why there has been such a dramatic increase. She says par...
Mental Health Author Talks About When Pain Rewrote His Life
Darcy Patrick started 2022 on a high. He was releasing his 5th book and had started his dream job as a peer support worker, using his years of experience with depression and mental health recovery. Then he was hit by a severe infection that was...
Canadian Mental Health Association Niagara Short Term and Crisis Support
Mental health crises rarely start as an “emergency” and that’s exactly why people need clear options before things hit the breaking point. Kristen Dyell, Clinical Director of Operations at Canadian Mental Health Association Niagara, talks about...
Businesses Work Pro Bono to Help Kids Get Mental Health Treatment Faster
A two-and-a-half-year wait for youth mental health care can turn a manageable struggle into a crisis. Angela Simo Brown, President & CEO, of Capitalize for Kids, talks about a different way to tackle the problem: not just raising mone...
A Trans Woman Talks about Transitioning At 50.
Cassidy McKinnon shares what it looks like to transition from male to female in your 50s. Cassidy talks about how she slowly made the transition to ensure her wife, and especially her little girl, were OK. How the depression she'd been living s...