Mood Disorders Society of Canada (MDSC) is a national lived experience mental health charitable organization committed to ensuring that people impacted by mood disorders enjoy the fullest lives possible, within a healthy, stigma-free environment. We have a long history of collaborative partnerships with various levels […]
Author: Dr. Jasmine Noble, Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Computing Science and Psychiatry, University of Alberta
As published in The Hill Times on April 25th, 2022.
It’s no secret that there is a brewing mental health crisis in Canada, […]
Read Report
The Mood Disorders Society of Canada is proud to announce Shirin Mehrpooya as the 2021 recipient of the Marg Starzynski Mental Health Leadership Award.  This award is presented to the individual whose dedicated leadership in community mental health awareness and through personal contributions to raising awareness of mental illness has had a positive impact on […]
The Mood Disorders Society of Canada is proud to announce ‘The Lived Experience and Recovery Network – LERN’ as the 2021 recipient of the Jordan James Pickell Mental Health Achievement Recognition Award.
This award is presented to an organization that has made outstanding contributions to mental health education and anti-stigma activities that have had a positive […]
Our objective is to facilitate the re-envisioning of mental healthcare in Canada to reflect the realities of those living with mental illness while supporting ALL Canadians by delivering accessible, high quality and stigma-free services.
MDSC’s overall objective is to provide people with mood disorders with a strong, cohesive voice at the national level by:
The upcoming session is a clean slate for this new Parliament to take immediate, meaningful action on an issue that all parties have clearly made a priority.
With Parliament sitting next week for the first time since the summer election, the government is now seized with the important task of drafting their legislative agenda—and what better […]
Mood Disorders Society of Canada (MDSC) conducted a national survey to understand sleep behaviours and perceptions about sleep, and the extent to which it is linked to mental health. How sleep supports our mental health, and how mental illness can impact our sleep. Ultimately, MDSC wanted to provide Canadians with information on the importance […]
Belleville, ON. September 21, 2021
Mood Disorders Society of Canada (MDSC) and our national and regional partners are interested in better understanding the viewpoints and experiences of Canadians and their Sleep.
This MDSC national survey is being conducted by Narrative Research, an independent firm. Your individual responses will be completely confidential.
Narrative Research will use your survey data […]
