Canadian Pharmacists Association
Canadian Pharmacists Association

Resource Round-up: Mental health

Need help?

If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 9-1-1 or go to your nearest hospital.

  • If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call the Canada Suicide Prevention Service at 1-833-456-4566. Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Free and confidential mental health and substance use support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from Wellness Together Canada. You can talk to a professional one on one. Call 1-866-585-0445 or text WELLNESS to 741741.

Canada’s pharmacy teams have taken on a lot throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to care for and support their patients and communities. The prolonged pressure of the pandemic and the ongoing strain on our health system continues to highlight the significant physical and mental stresses health workers bear as they care for their patients.

Taking care of yourself

CPS: Drug and therapeutic information 

Our drug and therapeutic content covers a wide variety of mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, insomnia, PTSD and addiction support. This information is designed to help you help your patients, but it also has many tips for ways to take care of yourself.

Pharmacy Workforce Wellness

CPhA launched the Pharmacy Workforce Wellness initiative to help address the core causes driving stress and burnout in the profession, and identify solutions and strategies aimed at minimizing the impact of the pandemic and its effect on the pharmacy workforce.

Our Resource Round-up series gathers available resources and practice tools on important health topics to help you in your practice. This is not an exhaustive list of available resources. Something missing? If you have information, tools or resources you think we should include, please let us know at practicedevelopment@pharmacists.ca.

Last updated on December 1, 2022