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Preventing Suicide: Our First Line of Defense
  I’ll never forget my mother two days after her suicide attempt. It was the beginning of winter and she had recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder . After a stay in the ICU and two days of medication, she was just regaining some clarity when I spoke to her. She knew...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/September-2017/Preventing-Suicide-Our-First-Line-of-Defense 9/6/2017 9:27:27 AM
The Messy Truth About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  I hear comments all the time: “My place is so perfect. I’m so OCD.” “No, it has to be neat and clean. I’m so OCD.” “You should see how I organized my Star Wars collection. I’m so OCD.” I was born with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ( OCD ). I struggled throughout m...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/October-2019/The-Messy-Truth-About-Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder 10/7/2019 1:13:42 PM
Please, Don't React; Respond
Many people don't know how to provide comfort or respond appropriately in times of need or crisis. Instead of listening and taking the time to provide a constructive response, they jump to conclusions. They say the first thing that comes to mind, or in other words, they reac...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/December-2018/Please-Don-t-React-Respond 12/6/2018 4:25:21 PM
Growing up Without Mental Health Support
Mental health care didn’t exist for me, or at least, that is what it felt like when I was a child. My feelings, emotions and any negative response to them was often discounted as me being a “sensitive child.”   Without knowing better, I accepted that I was different, o...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/February-2019/Growing-up-Without-Mental-Health-Support 2/11/2019 3:57:42 PM
How Being Hospitalized Changed My Perception of Mental Illness
Being hospitalized for a week due to mental illness isn’t exactly anybody’s idea of a good way to spend spring break, but my junior year of high school, that’s exactly what I did. After weeks of angry outbursts, panic attacks, attempts to self-harm and suicidal ideation, my...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/October-2019/How-Being-Hospitalized-Changed-My-Perception-of-Mental-Illness 10/16/2019 2:35:25 PM
Making the Most of a Psych Ward Stay: Strategies from a Psychiatric Nurse
When the hospital doors close behind you for the first time, it often feels more like the beginning of a prison stint than the start of a journey to recovery. The immediate deprivation of personal choice and the creature comforts of private life only seem to reinforce this p...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/September-2020/Making-the-Most-of-a-Psych-Ward-Stay-Strategies-from-a-Psychiatric-Nurse 9/4/2020 12:39:49 PM
What I Want You to Know as Someone with BPD
When I received my borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosis, my world came crashing down. While I was aware of the symptoms I was experiencing, I didn’t see the disorder within myself, or maybe just didn’t  want  to see the disorder within myself. As a mental ...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/October-2020/What-I-Want-You-to-Know-as-Someone-with-BPD 10/5/2020 11:54:11 AM
How Biking Helped My PTSD
I am a 50-year old American veteran and I am here to tell you about my struggle with PTSD and how biking has helped me manage my condition. I joined the military in 1994 and served for 23 years. Having come from a military family, I was thrilled to serve my country, especi...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/April-2021/How-Biking-Helped-My-PTSD 4/16/2021 8:23:51 AM
What it Means to Be a Man
This past Sunday was Father’s Day, and it’s had me thinking all week about the legacy of my own father, the legacy I am passing down to my own son and, in general, what it means to be a man. My dad was a paratrooper in the military, then he was a bookbinder by day and a c...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/From-the-CEO/June-2021/What-it-Means-to-Be-a-Man 6/25/2021 10:55:23 AM
Finding My Way Back from Suicidal Thoughts
On February 17, 2020, I was at a crossroads, deciding whether I wanted to live or die. After contemplating suicide for two days, it seemed like that was the only answer. I had battled depression for years, but I never told anyone how I was feeling. I was raised to believe...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/September-2021/Finding-My-Way-Back-from-Suicidal-Thoughts 9/10/2021 8:28:37 AM
What to Know If a Loved One is At Risk for Suicide
Each year, more than half a million people arrive at emergency rooms because they are contemplating suicide or because they have already hurt themselves. Despite the care they received, in the year that follows the visit, they are still at a high risk for suicide. Of co...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/September-2021/What-to-Know-If-a-Loved-One-is-At-Risk-for-Suicide 9/27/2021 8:31:33 AM
What to Look For and When to Act
When to worry and how to respond if your child is struggling.
https://www.nami.org/Your-Journey/Kids-Teens-and-Young-Adults/Kids/What-to-Look-For-and-When-to-Act 8/18/2021 10:53:27 AM
“Why Do Y’all Have Tattoos?”
The 2014 NAMI National Convention was an amazing, surreal experience. For four days, people from all over the country came together to educate and learn about mental illness. The entire conference was a smorgasbord of options, from panels on the latest updates in schizophr...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/September-2014/Why-Do-Y-all-Have-Tattoos-” 9/24/2014 11:31:55 AM
Finding Hope and Helping Others
Stigma and the fear of not being ‘normal’ was enough to keep me from getting treatment for a debilitating mental and physical illness for 23 years. Elementary school, middle, high school and college were a constant struggle. Academia was my enemy and I could never catch a bre...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/December-2013/Finding-Hope-and-Helping-Others 12/30/2013 12:00:00 AM
2021 Letter to CDC Director on Child & Adolescent Mental Health
https://www.nami.org/Advocacy/NAMI-Advocacy-Actions/2021/2021-Letter-to-CDC-Director-on-Child-Adolescent-Mental-Health 12/20/2021 1:51:16 PM
Inpatient Psych Care: What Movies Get Wrong and Why It Matters
The television screen goes dark, then flashes red. There’s a scream. Broken glass. Laughter. Then, the image returns. A nurse prepares a syringe. A man in a straitjacket talks to himself, responding to apparent voices in his head. The background music crescendos dramatical...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/April-2022/Inpatient-Psych-Care-What-Movies-Get-Wrong-and-Why-It-Matters 4/13/2022 8:05:49 AM
What to Do If Your Child Is in Crisis
Learn the warning signs of a mental health crisis and what to do.
https://www.nami.org/Your-Journey/Kids-Teens-and-Young-Adults/Kids/What-to-Do-If-Your-Child-Is-in-Crisis 8/11/2021 10:08:53 AM
The Story of an Adolescence, Interrupted
It was early fall, just past the autumnal equinox, that the fires started. Winds pushed flames through the sunburnt, thirsty hills of Southern California, and it was the ash — gray flakes floating like snowflakes covering the surface of the earth — that I remember most cl...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/June-2022/The-Story-of-an-Adolescence-Interrupted 6/3/2022 10:08:19 AM
Why Self-Esteem Is Important for Mental Health
  Although low self-esteem is not categorized as a mental health condition in itself, there are clear links between the way we feel about ourselves and our overall mental and emotional wellbeing. U.K.-based charity,  Teenage Minds , defines self-esteem as “how a person fe...
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/July-2016/Why-Self-Esteem-Is-Important-for-Mental-Health 7/12/2016 10:00:03 AM
Continuing the Conversation
I was diagnosed with bipolar II, major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder at the age of 25. It’s hard for me to grasp that my official diagnosis was only two years ago because so much has transpired and changed since then.
https://www.nami.org/Personal-Stories/Continuing-the-Conversation 5/4/2017 11:16:46 AM
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