NAMI Blog

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Confronting Mental Health Challenges in Rural America

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Navigating Secondary PTSD: Surviving the War That Came Home

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Telling Your Partner about Your Mental Health Diagnosis

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My Son is a Missing Person

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What It’s Like to Inherit Trauma

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What I Wish I Had Known About Borderline Personality Disorder

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What I Want my Neighbors to Know About My Mental Illness

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What I Wish I Had Known: We Don’t Have to Wait for a Crisis

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5 Truths I Discovered on My Road to Recovery

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Lessons Learned: Embracing Treatment and Finding Acceptance

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Surviving Motherhood and Mental Health: What I Wish I Knew When Life Went Off-Script

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What I Wish I Had Known on My 20-Year Mental Health Journey

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Observing 27 Years with OCD

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Five Schizophrenia Coping Skills I Can’t Live Without

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What I Wish I’d Known: The Art of Disclosing

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What I Wish I Had Known About Stigma: I Don’t Want to be “Normal”

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Ageism, Mental Health and Suicide Risk in Older Men

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How Law Enforcement Perpetuated My Son’s Trauma During a Mental Health Crisis

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Changing The Conversation About Suicide

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Sending My Daughter to College, Mental Health Challenges and All

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The Power of Peers: Mutual Inspiration

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A Simple, Yet Powerful Solution to the Mental Health Crisis: Peer Support

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Caring for Those Who Care for Us: Physician Suicide Awareness and Prevention

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I Am Not Alone: Finding Healing with NAMI

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Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts

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Finding My Life’s Purpose in Suicide Prevention and Peer Support

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The State of Suicide Today - And Ways to Prevent It

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The Fascinating Connection Between Octopi and Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Understanding and Coping with My Delusions

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Walking on a Tight Rope: Coping with Depression

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Enduring a Schizophrenia Relapse

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Anosognosia: A Big Word for a Surprising Condition

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My Battle with Bipolar Disorder

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Surviving to Thriving: Coping with Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Understanding Bipolar Disorder

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The Consequences of Stigma Surrounding Schizophrenia

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Unpacking Narcissism and Stigma

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DID Stories Are Riddled with Stigma: I Want to Tell a More Accurate One

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Fighting Internalized Stigma and Changing My Attitude

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The Problem with Preaching Gratitude

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How Time Line Therapy Has Helped Me

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Navigating Depression and Psychosis: The Experience We Rarely Talk About

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How My Daughter Reminded Me to Leave My Comfort Zone and Embrace Life

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Derealization: The Symptom That Makes the World Feel Unreal

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Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders

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Understanding and Managing Psychosis

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Navigating My Relationship and Hypergraphia

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Recognizing the Lesser-Known Symptoms of Depression

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Parenting with a Mental Health Condition

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When Trauma Is Triggered at Work

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How Music Shaped My Mental Health Journey

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How Walking Has Helped Me with My PTSD Recovery

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Why Mourning for the Self Is a Necessary Part of Healing

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The Importance of Finding Acceptance on My Mental Health Journey

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From Pain to Pride: How Writing My Story Helped Heal My Trauma

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Adopting a Cat Helped Me Find Recovery

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Recent Changes May Affect Access to an Important Medication

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How I Developed a Healthy Relationship with Exercise to Help My Mental Health

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Finding Reality Through Cartooning

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How Finding NAMI Was Pivotal to My Recovery

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Learning to Identify and Self-Manage Mania

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What I Learned from Experiencing Postpartum OCD and Depression

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Listening to the Whispers of Mental Illness Before They Turn into Shouts

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Weaving the Threads of Healing Through Writing

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How My Husband’s Untreated Symptoms Affected My Anxiety

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The Benefit of Support Groups When You Love Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder

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Five Things to Say to a Loved One with Anxiety

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What to Do When You Love Someone with Depression

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Medications Are Not the Only Way to Treat Depression

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How to Talk to Your Teen About Suicide

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When I Missed the Signs That My Son Has Schizophrenia

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How to Describe Borderline Personality Disorder to Those Who Don’t Understand

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Discrimination in Academia

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Why Labels Can Be Harmful When You Have Mental Illness

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Learning How to Maintain Employment with Bipolar Disorder

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How I Dealt with Mental Health Discrimination in the Church

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Overcoming Condition-Specific Barriers: Facing Anosognosia

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Exploring the Connection Between Trauma Healing and Physical Health

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Bipolar Depression: The Lows We Don’t Talk About Enough

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How Kate Spade’s Suicide Opened My Eyes to the Impact of Stigma

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What Are the Warning Signs of Depression in College Students?

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Reclaiming the Memories of My Sister

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Asking for and Accepting Help Saved Me

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How I Founded The Company I Needed During My Journey with OCD

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Veterans’ Mental Health Myths That Should Be Dispelled

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Buddhist-Derived Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality Disorder

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The Truth About Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Addressing the Increased Risk of Postpartum Depression for Black Women

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Finding my Voice in Therapy as a South Asian

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Fighting Gender-Based Harassment and Depression

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Accepting My Sexuality in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Why We Need Better Representation of Borderline Personality Disorder

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The Not So Pretty Version of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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I Thought I Understood My Daughter's Mental Illness, But I Had No Idea

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Six Underrated Depictions of PTSD in Movies and TV

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Finding Myself in the Main Character of “Prozac Nation”

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Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Misrepresented Diagnosis

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Using Lived Experience to Adapt Mental Health Language

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Learning My Warning Signs Through Each Stage of My Life

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How to Predict Your Next Bipolar Episode

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