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My Reason to Live
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.
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A Mom With Bipolar Disorder
I am 60 years old and was just recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Today I am going to my first NAMI support group. I feel hope.
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Don’t See Me as Bipolar. See Me as Tricia.
It wasn’t until years later that I was able to finally distinguish the fact that I have bipolar disorder, not that I am bipolar disorder. -
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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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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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.
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Tom’s Story
Well before I realized that this was the person I was going to love for the rest of my life, I realized that I would have to fully embrace her mental illness. As such, I would have to make her extensive involvement with NAMI my own.
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Phillip’s Story
I always felt that there was something different about me, but I was too afraid to face it. If I had known what I do now, I could have easily skipped the dark years, which involved lots of self-destruction with heavy drug usage and self-harm.
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Paton’s Story
When I was 26 years old, I believed that I had created the picture-perfect life with a family and thriving business. But my life took an abrupt turn when I had my first series of manic episodes in 2002.
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Linea’s Story
How do I live a life of fulfillment? How will I accomplish all the things that I planned to do? Are the dreams I once had now gone now that I’ve been diagnosed with a lifelong illness? These are the questions I would ask myself daily when I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 19.