Part of my mental illness makes me hear voices. I started to take an antipsychotic to help with my symptoms. The medication helps, but sometimes I still hear the voices. Does this mean the medication is not working anymore?
There has been a lot of recent press regarding the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and its research vision. Dr. Thomas Insel, the director of NIMH has recently come out explaining that the NIMH will no longer utilize the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta...
NAMI is focusing on how mental health reform bills in Congress support research. Please help us in advocating for mental health reform by contacting your members of congress.
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) today criticized FOX TV and the producers of the television show, "Beverly Hills 90210," for broadcasting "misinformation" about treatment options available for schizophrenia.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is focusing on films, music and other creative arts this week-at the same that a new scientific study has found a possible explanation for the link between mental illness and uninhibited processing in the brain that allows people...
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Being Cuban & a Caregiver: A Therapist's Lived Experience Rebeca Gibbons, therapist and mental health advocate, shares how being an immigrant from Cuba and a caretaker of a mother who eventually received a diagnosis of schizophrenia shaped her. Her experiences led her to be...
Surviving Loss: A Father’s Journey Kevin Fischer, NAMI Michigan’s executive director, was left devastated by the loss of his son, Dominique, a young man who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Like many parents who face similar heartbreak, Kevin foun...
The stigma behind mental illness runs deep and it destroys lives. I’ve decided to share my story in hopes that it will provide inspiration to others.
Every week NAMI publishes articles and blogs about the latest research, advocacy breakthroughs, interviews with leading researchers, advice on how to manage a mental health condition and other topics of interest to our active and information hungry audience. In 2015, do...
The Chocolate Debacle By Karen Winters Schwartz Goodman Beck Publishing (2014) Purchase Living with mental illness every day—combined with societal stigma and the frustration toward a broken mental health care system—can feel insurmountable. As the president o...
Maggie and her mother Maureen at the RAISE Congressional briefing alongside Darcy Gruttadaro, the Director of NAMI's Child and Adolecsent action center. On Oct. 20, Maggie, a 20-year-old nursing student, bravely stepped up to the podium in the Rayburn House Office...
A recent survey reports that 47% of adults living with schizophrenia drop out of college, compared to the 27% college dropout rate in the U.S. overall. Another study reports that students diagnosed with bipolar disorder are 70% more likely to drop out of college than stud...
Marriage is difficult for anyone, but it’s even more challenging when you add in the complications of mental illness. My husband, Andrew, has schizophrenia . We’ve lived together for nearly 15 years and we’ve found success as a married couple, but our journey has been ...
Before finding tai chi and qigong in 1988, I had been recovering from five years of multiple episodes of psychosis from schizophrenia, including being homeless at one point. It is not easy to recover from losing everything you have in life, including your mind, your person...
Schizoaffective disorder involves symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations or delusions, and symptoms of a mood disorder, such as depressive or manic episodes.
As a parent, I’ve learned that it can be unbelievably difficult to recognize that your child is suffering from an illness of any kind, least of all a mental illness. After navigating the maze that is the mental health care system, I discovered that early detection can help...
My daughter, Catherine, became visibly ill with schizophrenia at the age of 23. For eight years, she suffered through cycles of breakdown, recovery and relapse. Then, when she finally understood she was truly sick and needed medication, she began to improve. It took many y...