Balance Magazine is published 3-times per year by CMHA - Calgary Region to educate the public about mental health issues.

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	The more we know about mental health, the less intimidating it can be. This issue includes information on understanding how mental disorders impact your community, the different types of disorders, and why you don't have to wait to speak to a professional.
	Portrayals of mental health issues on television and the big screen can both create and combat stigma. This edition discusses how media representations shape our perceptions.
	Supporting a loved one when they are dealing with a mental health issue can be crucial to their healing and coping process. This edition highlights the importance of supporting a loved one and discusses the many ways the reader can do so.
	Issues associated with a mental disorder can affect anyone at any time, regardless of cultural background, race, ethnicity, age, gender, ability or sexual orientation. In this edition of Balance, we provide insight into the challenges and barriers experienced by diverse populations in relation to mental health and how different cultures interpret mental health concerns.
	Workplace wellness is becoming a hot topic due to increased levels of stress and depression. This edition of Balance takes a look at strategies to keep your mental health in check at work and the available resources in the community. Read one person's real life experience of being discriminated at the office and the obstacles faced to reclaim her independence after being diagnosed with a mental disorder.
	In this issue of Balance magazine, we explore the common mental disorders that affect the elderly, loss and loneliness in the elderly, a caregiver's perspective of caring for elders with mental disorders, and the relationship between medications and metal disorders. Click on the image to view.

Inadequate acute and community supports for people with mental disorders sometimes leads to individuals ending up in the corrections system rather than receiving the kind of help they need for their circumstances. This issue talks about the 'revolving door' that individuals with a mental disorder sometimes face, what resources are and aren't available in the corrections system, and what 'Not criminallly responsible on account of mental disorder' really means.

Click on the image to download the Spring 2009 issue of Balance Magazine. This issue takes us through mental health history, and discusses how mental health has (and hasn't) changed over the past 400 years. Read about promising new treatments for mental health disorders, new developments in research and discover how lifestyle can directly impact your mental health.

Click on the image to download the Winter 2009 issue of Balance Magazine. In this issue, how one OCD survivor learned to manage her obsessive thought and behaviors. Also, discover if early treatment of OCD in children can lead to a happier childhood, and can OCD be a positive thing in the workplace? Read these stories and find useful tips in this issue that focuses on Obsessive Compulsive Disorders.

Click on the image to download the Fall 2008 issue of Balance Magazine. This issue sheds some light on creativity and mental disorders, finding happiness in the everday, and the many benefits of leisure therapy.

Click on the image to download the Spring 2008 issue of Balance Magazine. This issue discusses topics surrounding kids, teens, young adults, and mental health. Learn how to cope when a child has been diagnosed with a mental disorder, discover strategies for helping a teenager riding through a challenging transition and find insight into computer usage and how to determine when it has become an addiction.

Click on the image to download the Winter 2008 issue of Balance Magazine. This issue explores anxiety, the causes, how to get help, and much more.

Click on the image to download the Fall 2007 issue of Balance Magazine. This issue introduces the 5 Steps to Mental Health as described at mymentalhealth.ca, talks about Survivors of Suicide Day, and talks about how different thinking styles can affect whether or not we're at risk for a relapse of depression.

Click on the image to download the Spring 2007 issue of Balance Magazine. This issue explores stigma and the affects it has on those dealing with a mental disorder, mental health breaks, and more.

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