FeelingBetterNow's very own Dr. Sam Ozersky along with Dr. Richard Heinzl discuss the state of mental healthcare in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic in the following roundtable.

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FeelingBetterNow CEO and Psychiatrist Dr. Sam Ozersky discusses the gradual reopening of provinces and the impact on mental health with CTV News.

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FeelingBetterNow CEO and Psychiatrist Dr. Sam Ozersky discusses measures to contain COVID-19 and the strain on mental health with Global News.

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Dr. Sam Ozersky speaks about a new app that distills all the collected knowledge about psychiatry to patients anonymously.

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BNN Bloomberg speaks to Dr. Sam Ozersky, president and CEO of Mensante Corporation, a company that uses technology to help companies and their employees diagnose mental health issues anonymously.

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Answer from Dr. Sam Ozersky, Senior Consultant, University Health Network Mood Disorders Clinic and, CEO, Mensante Corporation

Research has shown an increasingly clear relationship between diabetes and a variety of mental health issues (2018 Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines, Can J Diabetes 42 (2018) S130–S141).

With more than 6.7 million Canadians affected by Mental Illness and 2.2 million affected by Diabetes, the economic impacts to health systems and to the workplace are well established.

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Canadian physicians lack a universal, standardized process to clinically address problems in patients with mental disorders. The current sub-optimal assessment and treatment planning results in poor outcomes for close to 80% of mental health patients in primary care.

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This book offers a guide to better understanding models of workplace mental health, as well as best practices for mental health professionals, employee assistance groups, employers and employees alike. The cost of depression at the workplace is staggering, both in terms of absenteeism and productivity loss while at work, and in terms of human and family suffering.

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Mensante’s mental health and addiction service, FeelingBetterNow®, is now available through the OTN VOR arrangement – https://otn.ca/innovationcentre/substance-use-disorder/ – all of Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and their hospitals, community resources, addiction centers, Family Health Teams, healthcare providers, and all Ontarians within a LHIN’s catchment area.

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The Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) thanked Mensante for our support at the 2017 Shift the Conversation: Community Health and Wellbeing Conference, noting, "the conference was a great success and you played a very valuable part."

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