I want to have a conversation about what isn’t being talked about during this pandemic. Mental health. Many people are either locked up in their homes or forced to work in unsafe conditions and for a lot of us in general we miss the social interaction of the past /1

Even introverted people are finding this hard and those are the ones we need to check on. We are expected to follow the guidelines but with leaders like @fordnation, it is no wonder people are revolting because there is no clear guidelines. Now, why am I talking about this? /2

A friend of mine came to me the other day telling me he is finding it hard to survive. He is in his head and can’t stop having “dark thoughts”. I gave him some crisis numbers and spend a good deal of time on the phone with him. I’m sure I’ll be doing that more often /3

But it made me think a professional would be better suited to his situation. I called over 40 therapists/psychologists all to be told they are already at their max and more. There are waitlists but one of them told me don’t expect an appointment for at least 9 months /4

So, just think about this. We are all going crazy. We need stimulation. We need the normal we know but can’t cause of bad leadership and bad vaccine rollout which leads to #Covidiots that are only rebelling cause they going crazy at home and for the rest of us we can’t find /5

Mental health support outside of crisis lines that are being pushed to the brink of their limits and so we are losing people to suicide and expecting our mental health system to somehow survive with no additional funding or resources! /6

So while @fordnation hides from the public looking for his PR team to clean up his mess and trying to spin this is a federal issue when it’s his own ineptitude, people are dying not of #covid, but of mental health reasons. Did we all forget that? /6

@fordnation is killing our province. With #COVID19 and #suicide and #mentalillness and we all are forced to watch it all go down. We can’t stop it, we can’t fix it, and Ford won’t admit we need help! Please people, check on the ones you love. For their own #mentalhealth