FROM BCMHSUS:

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services is coming back to you with their quarterly Demystifying Concurrent Disorders Webinar Series to help patients, clients and families better understand the complex world of concurrent disorders.

Our next webinar session will be on ‘Demystifying Bipolar Disorder’ and will take place via Zoom on Feb. 13 from 2-3:30 p.m. PST.

Hosted by Laurie Edmundson (senior leader, Patient Experience and Community Engagement at BCMHSUS), we will have three expert panelists who bring a diversity of perspectives, including clinical, research, and lived and living experience:
• Kagan Goh is a lived experience partner is a Vancouver-based Chinese Canadian multidisciplinary Mad Artist: award-winning filmmaker, published author, spoken word poet, playwright, actor, curator, mental health advocate and activist.
• Victoria Maxwell is a lived experience strategic advisor with BCMHSUS and is recognized international keynote speaker who uses her personal story of recovery from mental illness to increase awareness, transform negative beliefs and ignite powerful conversations about mental health.
• Dr. Ivan Torres is a clinical neuropsychologist, clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UBC, and research scientist at BCMHSUS.

Register to join the discussion on Feb. 13: https://ow.ly/RwRs50UOl3z