Today NAMI launched “ Mental Health Without Conditions ,” a compassionate Pride Month campaign for LGBTQ+ dignity and equality.
This webinar will discuss the latest data and research on the mental health of LGBTQ youth as well the ways that each of us can save the lives of LGBTQ young people.
If you live with a mental health condition and identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning (LGBTQ+), it’s important to prioritize your mental health.
Everything we hear, see and perceive, whether at home, in the media, on the playground, or from a non-affirming religion, can seep inside. Left unaddressed, the harmful stereotypes we have been taught can negatively affect our life and choices. This issue profoundly affects ...
A Proud Path to Mental Health Members of the LGBTQ+ community share stories dealing with social stigma, hopelessness, and living with mental illness, which affects so many LGBTQ+ individuals across the country. Outsized obstacles to mental health exist for LGBTQ+ youth and ...
I’ve worked in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) field for 10 years. Before arriving at NAMI, I worked specifically with and for LGBTQ college students preparing them for the workplace and teaching them about their rights in the workplac...
For nearly half a century, NAMI advocates have fought for every person to have access to the mental health care they need when and where they need it. While we’ve come a long way, we unfortunately still live far from that reality. For many, new barriers are making it even...
Today NAMI launched “Mental Health Without Conditions,” a compassionate Pride Month campaign for LGBTQ+ dignity and equality.
Picture one of those slow motion videos of a tennis ball being hit by a tennis racquet and coiling inward before being released back to its original shape as the ball projects through the air. That’s what mental resiliency is: the ability to “bounce back” from conflict ...
For as long as she could remember, Sarah felt like she had to apologize for being herself. Not only for being a queer woman, but also for being someone who lives with mental illness. When Sarah came out as a lesbian, her friends and family were relatively supportive, bu...
LGBTQ+ youth are three times more likely to seriously contemplate suicide — and five times more likely to have attempted suicide — than their heterosexual counterparts, according to The Trevor Project , a national organization providing crisis intervention to LGBTQ+ peopl...
As a gay man, my earliest feelings of attraction to other men in adolescence were accompanied by an awareness that they conflicted with my immigrant parents’ expectations. I suppressed outward displays of my sexual orientation and retreated. I grew depressed and anxious. I f...
NAMI believes that no one should be subject to practices that can cause or worsen mental health symptoms. NAMI supports public policies and laws to ban the discredited, discriminatory, and harmful practice of conversion therapy.
A NAMI-Ipsos poll conducted in Summer 2023 found that most Americans are not familiar with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Additionally, the poll found that there’s strong bipartisan support for policy solutions and funding to expand the capacity of 988 call centers and th...
I’ve been living in Los Angeles and working in West Hollywood, LA’s gay neighborhood, for 10 years. In that time, I’ve unfortunately known far too many people who have overdosed from drugs or alcohol or who have died by suicide. Recently, I was told a young man I once...