Kristin Pardy hid her bulimia for more than 10 years.
Kristin Pardy, who lives in a rural community in Newfoundland and Labrador, faces many obstacles to getting care for bulimia and anxiety. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Canadian Mental Health Association **MANDATORY CREDIT**When she finally mustered the courage to go to her local clinic in Cartwright — a community of about 400 people in southern Labrador — and share her "secret," the nurses were "amazing" and got her a referral to an outpatient eating disorders program in St.
Inability to get needed mental health care is a reality facing many people in this country, according to The State of Mental Health in Canada 2024, a report released Tuesday by the Canadian Mental Health Association. Access to care varies widely across provinces and territories, with the biggest barriers in northern and rural parts of Canada, it says.During the pandemic, Pardy suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her third child and was also diagnosed with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder by a doctor visiting the community.
Things finally took a turn last June, when Pardy went from being employed by a private company to working as an emergency medical responder with the Newfoundland and Labrador government, making her eligible for a new package of benefits.”I'm kind of trying to patch together some sort of treatment that will work for me given my location," said Pardy, who is a member of the Canadian Mental Health Association's national council of people with lived experience.
"Our system is a pay-to-play system whereby services like counselling, psychotherapy, addictions treatment, treatment for eating disorders all fall outside of our public universal health-care system," she said. The State of Mental Health in Canada 2024 is the first edition published by the Canadian Mental Health Association and will serve as a benchmark to measure progress in future reports released every two years.
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