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We Asked Montrealers How COVID-19 Shifted Their Priorities — Here's The Good & The Tragic

It's not an understatement to say that the pandemic has changed just about everything in our lives. From grocery store to labour shortages, from lipstick to hand sanitizer sales, there doesn't seem to be an aspect of our day-to-day that hasn't been shifted by the virus. It got us at MTL Blog thinking: has the pandemic changed us? We took to Instagram to find out.

We asked you, the readers, how the pandemic has shifted your priorities. Here are some of the responses we received.

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A Canada Mental Health Survey Suggests We're Mostly A Big Puddle Of Worry & Fatigue

It's no surprise that the pandemic has had a negative impact on Canadians' mental health. The Angus Reid Institute (ARI) released the results of ongoing research on mental health in Canada throughout the pandemic, and the results are troubling.

The ARI asked Canadians to summarize how they had been feeling over the past few weeks. Of the 1,509 Canadians polled online from January 18 to 20, nearly half (48%) said that they felt "fatigued." That's more than three times the number of people who reported feeling "optimistic" (13%) or "happy" (12%). 40% of Canadians expressed feeling "frustrated," 37% felt "anxious" and 23% felt "depressed."

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Overwhelmed By The Never-Ending COVID News? A Montreal Psychologist Offered Tips To Cope

It seems like all we've read and talked about for the last two years is COVID-19 — in the news, at our dinner tables, on posters all over the city. And at times, this can feel extremely overwhelming for some.

So we spoke with Dr. Wendy Wood, a Montreal psychologist and founder of Wood Psychology, about the effects the pandemic has had on people's mental health and ways to cope with the stress our ever-changing pandemic reality may cause.

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Hélène Boudreau Opened Up About Her Mental Health Struggle & Shared An Important Message

Hélène Boudreau's 152K Instagram followers are used to seeing her post about nights on the town, tattoos, art and OnlyFans. But earlier this week, the Quebec content creator used her platform to talk about something out of the ordinary: her mental health, including her borderline personality disorder diagnosis.

She said she wanted to raise awareness because "it's important to talk about mental illness, to support people who are suffering."

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