{"id":90791,"date":"2025-01-15T11:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=90791"},"modified":"2025-02-12T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T16:24:39","slug":"a-new-guide-to-navigating-your-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/healthy-tomorrows\/a-new-guide-to-navigating-your-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"A new guide to navigating your mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mental health is a critical health priority for Canadians, with many seeking to better understand their own experiences or support a loved one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, for better or worse, people are turning to the internet for help on how to navigate these challenges \u2014 and finding themselves digging through mountains of contradictory and questionable advice in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To ensure everyone has access to medically verified and easy-to-understand information about mental health, The Ottawa Hospital has created a special video series called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLLuNd32pHu26E8zxCssXa4jIoiMrQVeIT\">The Mental Health Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free to view and available in English and French, the guide features members of The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s psychiatry team sharing their expertise on common mental health conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Panic attack or anxiety? Panic disorder explained and practical tips to stay calm\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dZgMwMVKWWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this video from <ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLLuNd32pHu26E8zxCssXa4jIoiMrQVeIT\"><ins><u>The Mental Health Guide<\/u><\/ins><\/a><\/ins>, Dr. Victoria Meng explains how to calm a panic attack.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy leveraging social media, these videos enable health-care professionals to deliver reliable, trustworthy information to communities far and wide,\u201d explains Dr. Jess Fiedorowicz, Head and Chief of Mental Health at The Ottawa Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested in learning more about mental health? Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLLuNd32pHu26E8zxCssXa4jIoiMrQVeIT\">The Mental Health Guide<\/a> on The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s YouTube channel to watch the full series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Hospital has partnered with YouTube to create an important series of videos where health-care professionals offer expert guidance to help you or a loved one navigate mental health challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":90792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[393,276,412],"class_list":["post-90791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-tomorrows","tag-education","tag-mental-health","tag-population-health"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}