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    You can use mindfulness every day. It’s a tool you can use at any time. It helps you slow down, accept things as they are, cope well with problems, and simply appreciate what’s in your life right now.

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    At first, you may find depression hard to notice in yourself or someone else. Learn what you can do if you are experiencing depression.

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    What is Mindfulness?

    You can use mindfulness every day. It’s a tool you can use at any time. It helps you slow down, accept things as they are, cope well with problems, and simply appreciate what’s in your life right now.

    Learn more
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    Drinking and Your Health

    Alcohol is a substance that can be enjoyed in moderation. However, the more you drink, the more your risk of certain diseases can go up. Find out how many drinks it takes to put you at risk, and how high or low those risks can be.

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Call if you are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including thoughts of suicide.

310 Mental Health Support

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Call for emotional support, information and resources specific to mental health.

KUU-US Crisis Response Service

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Sometimes it may not be clear where stress is coming from and how it is affecting your body. Learn about symptoms of stress.

Stress can cause many different symptoms in your body. This may include:

  • An increased heartbeat
  • A headache
  • A stiff neck or tight shoulders
  • Back pain
  • Fast breathing
  • Sweating, and sweaty palms
  • An upset stomach, nausea, or diarrhea
  • Lack of appetite or eating more than usual

There are things to look for that can help you understand if you are stressed.

Over time, stress can take a toll on your immune system, heart, muscles, stomach and more. It can also affect the way you think, act and feel.

Understanding what causes stress for you can help to lower stress levels or to avoid it. For example, keep a record to track times and instances when you feel stressed out. Write down:

  • What you think may have triggered the stress.
  • How you felt and reacted in response to the stressful situation.
  • What you did to cope with the stressful situation.

There are ways to help you cope with your current stress levels and help you prepare for future stressors. There’s no one right way to deal with stress. So, finding a few different ways to identify, measure and track stress can help.

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Foundry's Stress Self-Check

Free, stress self-check tool that can help young people identify experiences related to stress.

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Free, stress self-check tool that help youth identify experiences related to stress.

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Walk through a stress self assessment to help you understand the stress you are experiencing. 

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Kelty Mental Health

Free information for families, including resources, peer support, and help navigating mental health and substance use challenges affecting children and youth.

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Helpful, trusted resources and support for families across BC.

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Kelty Mental Health provides mental health and substance use information, resources, and peer support to families across B.C., including information and resources to people of all ages experiencing disordered eating concerns. 

The Kelty Centre is a part of the integrated provincial strategy to improve health literacy in mental health and substance use in B.C., and is a key Mental Health Literacy program at BC Children's Hospital. 

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Emotional support, information and resources specific to mental health in British Columbia.

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If you need support with your mental health, call to find help immediately.

The service is confidential, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is toll-free anywhere in British Columbia (no need to dial an area code), provided by the Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia.

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Online information and resources that helps people live well, prevent and manage mental health and substance use challenges.

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Online information and resources that help people live well, prevent and manage mental health and substance use challenges.

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Find quality information, learn new skills, and connect with key resources in B.C. Explore strategies to help you take care of your mental health and use substances in healthier ways and learn how you can support a loved one.

This site is run by BC Partners; BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority.

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