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from NAMI.org
Regulating Glutamate May Help Early Detection of Schizophrenia, Study Finds A recent study has discovered that increased levels of glutamate may play a role in triggering psychosis.
NAMIWalks Spring 2013
Got You Covered
First Episode Podcasts
DSM-5 and Psychosis: Hopes and Limitations
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Personal Stories

Beneath The Label Of Mental Illness

On a Sunday morning in Austin years ago, I met my future mother-in-law. Actually, I didn't meet her that morning, though I saw her from afar. I had seen her often, I realized, but I hadn't known she was the mother of the lovely and accomplished woman I soon would marry. On that particular Sunday, Dawn was selling flowers on the Drag, on a street corner near the university. Wearing a man's dirty gray sports coat, ragged pants and a Day-Glo green cap with an oversized gold pin stuck through the crown, she clutched a bouquet of rosebuds and was shifting from one foot to another, back and forth, back and forth. She was engaged in an animated conversation — with herself.
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Persons Living With Mental Illness Can And Do Recover!

My name is Ramiro Guevara. I have been asked to share a subject that is so close to my heart -- the path to mental illness recovery. NAMI has been very supportive and an integral part of this journey.
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