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...
NAMI is honoring five individuals who have shown outstanding courage in publicly disclosing their personal or family experiences with mental illness and who continue to forthrightly discuss the impact of mental illness in their own lives.
A webinar series focused on addressing mental health crises with comprehensive community responses NAMI Ask The Expert — Help, Not Handcuffs Part 3: Additional Community Models April 22, 2021, 4 – 5:30 p.m. ET In part three of our webinar series, experts from Geo...
"I have a NAMI family that deeply cares as I strive to heal wounds within myself and my household."
African Americans face unique challenges in confronting mental illness and finding paths to recovery, which will be the focus of a symposium organized by NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) on September 8, 2004, in Washington, D.C.
Members of the Los Angeles-based band were deeply affected by the suicide of a former band member's brother-in-law and have used the stage to raise awareness for mental health.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is excited to welcome Sherman Gillums, Jr. to the organization in the newly created position of Chief Strategy and Operations Officer.
Who would think that the way to finally get your family talking about mental illness would be to sit them in front of a camera and start rolling? That’s exactly what Dinesh Das Sabu did in Unbroken Glass , his new documentary from Kartemquin Films. After living his ...
Most of us are taught that depression is a flaw in brain chemistry. But another important and hopeful way to understand depression is through understanding our emotions. Life experiences, especially adverse ones, can ignite many emotions in the brain. Research has shown tha...
On February 8, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Resources, Education & Related Agencies will hold a hearing on suicide prevention that will include testimony from best-selling author Danielle Steel and Professor Kay Redfield Jamison, author of s...
What am I? Who are you? Which box do I check? Which version of myself do I need to be today? And why do I have to be just one? This past May, licensed professional counselor, Ashley Ann Daniel, addressed these questions in her dissertation titled “ The Lived Experience ...
With the one year anniversary of President Obama's National Dialogue on Mental Health approaching we reflect on how the Dialogue has impacted mental health care in America.
I started volunteering for a suicide prevention hotline in June 2020. It had become clear that COVID-19 wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and I decided I needed a helpful distraction — or my mental health might deteriorate more, faster. Maybe it sounds counterintuitive, ...
Self Care University: Sound Therapy | Managing Your Mental Health Welcome to Self-Care University, a show where we explore different self-care activities to help manage your mental health. NAMI ambassador Corinne Foxx meets with Sound Healer Danny Santos to learn what sound...
I am delighted to announce that NAMI has added NAMI Ending the Silence as a signature education program. NAMI Ending the Silence is an in-school presentation about mental health designed for high school students. Students can learn about mental illness directly from th...
It wasn’t until I accepted my bipolar II diagnosis that I was able to start managing, coping and recovering. That is why I wanted part of my recovery journey to be fighting stigma and helping others with mental illness as well. A few years ago, I made a video for th...