On the last episode of season 1, I receive my friend Zent to talk about fashion and mental health. We say goodbye to this first season by discussing different ways of shopping, using clothes to get out of a funk, deconstructing social gender norms and body image. A perfect way to end a perfect initial season for Mental Health Much? Thank you for listening and I will be back very soon for more amazing queer content.

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Dans cet épisode francophone, le dernier épisode francophone de la saison 1, Éric vient nous parler de son chemin avec la sexualité et la drogue, notamment le Crystal Meth et le chemsex. Dans cet épisode, iel nous raconte le masque qu’iel portait pour se faire accepter dans la communauté gaie, la place de l’écriture dans sa santé mentale et ses années de sobriété.

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Pour suivre Éric sur Instagram : @autre_noel

Pour découvrir sa bibliographie : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_No%C3%ABl

Pour acheter sa pièce: https://www.leslibraires.ca/livres/faire-des-enfants-eric-noel-9782760904194.html

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This week, colleague, friend and psychoanalyst Marco joins me to talk about gaslighting, or in the psychoanalyst jargon: projective identification. On this episode, we juggle between research in psychotherapy and the pop media culture, to find out how gaslighting became what it is today. Along the way, we discuss Freud, racism, being gay and a lot of things that are toxic.

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Find Marco on Linkedin: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/marco-posadas-461712b

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On episode 15, I invited my good friend Henrique to talk about a reality that affects both of our lives on a daily basis in Toronto: having English as a second language. Henrique and I discuss the challenges that this brings into our lives, and the different techniques we have to make our communication easier. Small secret, even though I am publishing this as episode 15, it is actually the second episode I recorded back in January when I had just started this project!

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Find Henrique on Instagram @henriquemagoo

Discover Henrique’s Youtube Channel – Social X – https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialXChannel/featured

Henrique is the person who designed the logo for this podcast. Discover his work as a graphic designer: www.henriqueassis.com

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On episode 14, the incredibly talented Colin is joining me to discuss diversity in media and social media. Colin share details of his participation to various theatre productions and TV shows as a queer person of colour, while explaining how awesome it would have been for his younger self to have that kind of models growing up. We also spend a very healthy amount of time discussing pop culture, social media and, obviously, Crazy Rich Asians.

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Find Colin on Instagram and Twitter @colinasuncion 

Discover Colin's amazing musical group: Asian Riffing Trio

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In this episode, Avesta talks about the struggles of living with ADHD in academia and in an ableist world. From her early struggles as a child to the way her medication helped her, she generously paints a portrait of the reality of living in her brain. This is a great first episode of the topic of ADHD in which I hope you will learn as much as I did.

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This week, my colleague Rahim came on my podcast to discuss the topic of envy. If you ever wondered what it sounds like when two therapists have a drink together after work to discuss mental health, wonder no more. From jealousy, to body image and substance use, we talk about everything. Including good kitchen appliances.

A fun episode that I hope you will enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording.

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Find Rahim: https://linktr.ee/rthawer

Find Rahim on social media: https://allmylinks.com/ladyativan

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This week, my coworker Aaron is very generously talking about his relationship with his mother who struggled with depression for her whole life. He explains his changing relationship with her as he grew from a kid adoring her to a young adult who had to put boundaries in their relationship. He also shares stories of the beautiful moments he had with her before she passed away. I never knew carrots could make me tear up.

A beautiful and touching episode, and we say hello and thank you to Aaron’s incredible family.

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** Désolé pour la qualité du son de mon micro **

Dans ce deuxième épisode spécial avec RÉZO, Naïka vient nous parler de la santé globale des jeunes LGBTQ+. Ancrée dans son travaille comme responsable et intervenante dans le projet Jeunes Queer Youth, et étant elle-même une jeune personne queer, Naïka discute des limites de la langue française, de la représentation queer dans les médias, de l'intersectionnalité et de l'importance pour les jeunes de faire parti d'une communauté.  

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RÉZO est un organisme communautaire sans but lucratif montréalais actif depuis 1991 auprès des hommes gais ou bisexuels, et hommes ayant des relations sexuelles avec d’autres hommes (HARSAH), qu’ils soient cis ou trans.

www.rezosante.org - 514-521-7778

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Black Healing Fund - www.blackhealingfund.com

FruitionMTL - https://linktr.ee/FruitionMTL

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Suivez Mental Health Much? sur Instagram - www.instagram.com/mentalhealthmuch

Dans ce premier épisode spécial en collaboration avec RÉZO, Kevin vient nous parler de son parcours, de ses années à travailler dans des sites d'injection supervisée et de son travail comme travailleur de rue sur le projet Travail du sexe de Rézo. Nous discutons d'itinérance, de stigmatisation face à la consommation de drogue, de l'impact de la COVID-19 sur les personnes vivant dans la rue et beaucoup plus. 

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RÉZO est un organisme communautaire sans but lucratif montréalais actif depuis 1991 auprès des hommes gais ou bisexuels, et hommes ayant des relations sexuelles avec d’autres hommes (HARSAH), qu’ils soient cis ou trans.

www.rezosante.org - 514-521-7778

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Un service d’injection supervisée (SIS) est un endroit où les utilisateurs de drogues par injection peuvent venir s’injecter des drogues. 

Il en existe quatre à Montréal: https://santemontreal.qc.ca/population/services/services-dinjection-supervisee/ 

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