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Gamers Champion Mental Health Awareness
RPG Limit Break is back again this Mental Health Month, speedrunning video games to raise awareness about mental illness and funds for NAMI. This event is what happens when we all band together for a common cause. -
Suicide: A Cry for Life
"So often, our culture concludes that suicide is a rejection of life, a willful refusal to live any longer, but I believe suicide is a statement that life can and should be so much more than pain or despair. If a suicidal person only sees a future with days on end of pain, then that vision looks nothing like the sort of life we all long to enjoy." -
Living With Suicide Loss
"Four months into life without Preston, every task overwhelmed me, from choosing clothes to wear to signing a birthday card…I insisted vehemently to myself that I wasn’t depressed. 'I’m just tired. I need a break,' went the script. But a break didn’t help." -
Gaming for Good: A Competitive Approach to Spreading Awareness
RPG Limit Break is back again this year, speedrunning video games to raise awareness about mental illness and funds for NAMI. This event is what happens when different communities band together for a common cause. -
A Young Adult’s Perspective on the 2016 NAMI Convention
A member of the NAMI Young Adult Advisory Group shares her experience attending this years National Convention in Denver. -
Comedian Believes that Mental Health is No Laughing Matter
Mental health awareness can be spread through many mediums. See how actor Ted Swartz opens up a dialogue about mental illness through his play, Laughter is a Sacred Space.
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Bridging the Gap Between Secular and Spiritual: Mental Illness & Faith
Three distinguished panelists led a session at the 2015 NAMI National Convention in San Francisco discussing how to connect faith communities into the mental health space, and how spirituality can be an important aspect of the recovery process. -
Singing Out for Kid’s Mental Health
During National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week, Congress and pop culture converged to raise awareness for mental illness.