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Living Well with Schizophrenia
I have been diagnosed for 10 years. It hasn’t been an easy trip. You see, I have both schizophrenia and bipolar.
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Modeling After Minnesota: Achieving Positive Results for Students
How do we implement mental health services in school? Minnesota's example may lead the way to improving student health around the country. -
Shared Decision Making: Empowering People Living with Mental Illness
There isn't always enough time to discuss everything you want when you meet with your doctor. Pat Deegan explains how shared decision making can help. -
Ask the Doctor: Living Well with Bipolar Disorder
Dr. Nierenberg joined NAMI's medical director Ken Duckworth to look at the combination of factors that help ensure wellness. -
It’s Never Too Late
I look back on my life with regret, but it's no longer that I was wasting my life, but that I didn’t get help sooner.
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Get your smart phone ready and prepare to “Text, Talk, Act on Mental Health”
The Dec. 5 event is an important part of the National Dialogue on Mental Health and is expected to encourage even more participation.
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Eric’s Story
I am a single dad who just happens to have a chronic mental illness. After years of struggling, I found a wonderful doctor that actually took his time going through my symptoms in detail. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder/anxiety and major depression.
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Yashi’s Story
I was living drug free in a loving family environment. But I was also living with deep internal pain and severe depression…
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Edith’s Story
I never imagined that I would come to learn about mental illness through a family member—my daughter.
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Janie’s Story
For a long time, I struggled. When I finally began my recovery journey several years after being diagnosed, I was true to my treatment and practiced effective coping mechanisms. But when it came to loving "me" just as I was, recovery was no more in reach than it had been before.