NAMI Blog

Celebrities have the ability to bring people into our community, people who can relate to their struggle and feel inspired by their bravery to speak out.

Movies and television have the unique ability to provide examples to the general public about how to recognize and respond to warning signs that someone is considering suicide. 

Now more than ever, children are learning about mental health in school. However, mental health issues among young people is still on the rise. We need to ensure that our children are not just learning how to seek help, but are actually acting on it. 

"Even when you sign the contract of a lifetime, your anxiety doesn’t just fade away. You are still playing a high intensity game that wears on you every day, beating you down physically and emotionally. But there’s always a way to get help."

Celebrities talking about mental illness can help reduce stigma as long as their message isn't sensationalized. If a celebrity is being honest about their mental health issues, their example is likely to be helpful. 

Technology is great for helping you manage mental health conditions and medications, but online social media and shopping sites can present dangers for conditions like bipolar disorder. Here are tips for interacting with the internet when you are symptomatic.

Trends that are popular do not always have a positive effect on people. Here are some tips for managing the adverse effects that pop culture triggers might have on you.

As one country singer-songwriter discovered, the messages in music can help ease pressure in a world filled with others' expectations of you and your expectations of yourself.

RPG Limit Break is back again this Mental Health Month, speedrunning video games to raise awareness about mental illness and funds for NAMI. This event is what happens when we all band together for a common cause.

It's great that we are talking about mental illness, but we don't want to talk about it in a way that sensationalizes it.