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Neuroplasticity II: Recovery After Jail
"I focused on work, love, play and spirituality as the required elements for recovery." -
Neuroplasticity: How I Survived Psychosis and Jail
"Neuroplasticity, my brain’s potential to adapt to change, proved to be crucial to both surviving incarceration and recovering from psychosis." -
A Plea for Compassion as Someone Who Was Arrested During Psychosis
To bring about meaningful change, the system itself has to be restructured and it starts, quite plainly, with having compassion. -
Podcasts Featuring Three Unique Perspectives on Serious Mental Illness Released in Partnership with APA’s SMI Adviser
NAMI has partnered with the APA’s SMI Adviser program to produce the Medical Mind Podcast series featuring NAMI Chief Medical Officer Ken Duckworth in conversations centered around experiences with bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and early psychosis. -
Making a Difference One Person at a Time
"Treating someone living with mental illness with dignity and kindness is one of the best things you can do for them." -
My Emotions During My Husband’s Bipolar Episodes
"I want to pull him out from the depths of the depression, but I know it doesn’t work that way." -
What People Get Wrong About Bipolar Disorder
Here are five of the most common misconceptions about bipolar disorder. -
What People with Mental Illness Want You to Know
By learning from people with lived experience, we can all help each other thrive. -
Congress Passes New Bill to Improve Veterans’ Mental Health Care
On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, NAMI celebrated the U.S. House of Representatives’ unanimous passage of a landmark bipartisan bill, S. 785, The Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act. -
My Spiral out of Reality
"To never have lived the struggles I’ve endured would be to erase who I am today."