defeatdepression

By Angela Gemmill

Mental Health, or more specifically depression, will be the topic of conversations Saturday for the 2nd annual Walk to Defeat Depression in Sudbury.

The event starts at 9am at the Grace Hartman Amphitheatre in Bell Park.

Participants will complete one of three course lengths: 10K, 4K or two kilometres walk.

Event Coordinator Lori Glibbery says the walk is meant to get people talking about depression, in the hopes of reducing the stigma linked with mental health and mental illness.

She says a lot of people don’t understand depression or the battle going on inside those who suffer with it.

Glibbery offers some advice: be more understanding, be kind and gentle with them and learn about the disease.

She hopes to raise $60,000, which will go to programs and services with the Sudbury-Manitoulin branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

The inaugural event in 2014 had over 300 participants.

Glibbery says she’s involved because she lost her partner to depression in 2013.

Afterwards she and his daughter decided to start the walk in Sudbury to help others and make sure no one else had to go through similar pain.