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The Expert is In: Bipolar Disorder | Part One
The Expert is In: Bipolar Disorder | Part One Expertise on mental health conditions can come from all angles and experiences. You don’t need to have a PhD for your experiences to give you expertise around a condition. Many of us have lived experiences or have been caretakers and supporters, and each of these experiences […] -
Buddhist-Derived Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality Disorder
The practice of meditation has the potential to play an important role in treating BPD. -
Why We Need Better Representation of Borderline Personality Disorder
BPD is not an easy condition to live with. TV shows and films that portray us as volatile, manipulative and “crazy” only compound our struggles. -
Using Lived Experience to Adapt Mental Health Language
By using the language of people with lived experience, we can create a more person-centered approach to the way we all talk about mental health. -
Tell Me About Schizophrenia
Tell Me About Schizophrenia To learn more about schizophrenia or to find support visit www.nami.org/schizophrenia -
Ashlynn McNeeley: What I wish people knew about Borderline Personality Disorder
Ashlynn McNeeley: What I wish people knew about Borderline Personality Disorder I feel everything so intensely, it's like having this thin skin, but these things are not always there you can work on them. You can get better. I have a fiancé, two dogs, and am a psychiatric nurse. At NAMI, we are more than […] -
Andrea Landry: What I wish people knew about bipolar disorder
Andrea Landry: What I wish people knew about bipolar disorder Racing thoughts are part of what I experience. For me, hearing first-person stories at NAMI helped in my recovery journey and inspired me to give back to my community by sharing my story. -
Krishna Louis: What I wish people knew about anxiety
Krishna Louis: What I wish people knew about anxiety I feel that sharing my story, as a NAMI Ending the Silence speaker, will impact someone to see that there is light at the end of the tunnel. The only thing is you have to keep on walking, step by step. -
Let My Journey with BPD Be Your Guide (Not Your Blueprint)
My gratitude is ever present that I managed to emerge alive and content, with a life worth living. -
NAMI Seeks Participants for Survey on Lived Experience of Borderline Personality Disorder
NAMI is conducting a Virtual Advisory Panel — an online platform for participants to anonymously answer a survey on how Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) affects their life, work and relationships.