Mental health on agenda at Cape Breton University

This week will be the first mental health week held on-campus since 2011-12.

“With the publicity that mental health has been getting within the last couple of years, we thought it was a god time to bring it back,” noted Mark Vickers, vice-president of communications with the CBU psychology society.

“People are talking about it a lot more, especially this year. We did lose a student back in the fall to suicide.”

Having a week of events focusing on mental health issues will help raise awareness that much more, Vickers added.

A call went out to a number of different student societies to develop events for the week. For example, the CBU Art Gallery society held on Monday evening a Jackson Pollack paint throw, which allowed students to relieve some stress by letting their inner abstract artist shine and throwing paint onto a canvas.

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