February 5, 2020 at 10:26am By Olivia Flores Alvarez Houstonia https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2020/02/houston-symphony-s-new-schumann-festival-explores-the-composer-s-genius-and-mental-illness ROBERT SCHUMANN WAS one of the Romantic era’s most prolific and gifted composers. He was also very likely bipolar, says […]

February 9, 2020 at 8:38 PM By Jarrod Castillo USC Annenberg Media http://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2020/02/10/mental-health-is-becoming-a-priority-in-sports/ Being in the top 1% in the world of anything must be a good feeling, right? Now […]

Jan. 21, 2020 By Becky Brasfield NAMI https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/January-2020/How-to-Move-Forward-After-Going-Through-a-Crisis After a crisis, recovery can be challenging. Our lives are left in turmoil caused by the stressful situation we just managed to overcome. With the […]

Jan. 17, 2020 By Odelya Gertel Kraybill, Ph.D., LCPC NAMI https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/January-2020/5-Reminders-for-Survivors-of-Trauma In 1991, when I was 17 and living in Tel Aviv with my family, a loud siren woke me from a […]

Dec 4, 2019 By Courtney Collins & Domini Davis KERA News https://www.keranews.org/post/texas-get-funds-improve-suicide-prevention-lifeline Texas Health and Human Services is getting a financial boost from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline aimed to […]

Published 8:02 am CST, Thursday, December 12, 2019 By Bandy X. Lee, Yale University Chron https://www.chron.com/news/article/Myths-around-mental-illness-cause-high-rates-of-14901276.php (THE CONVERSATION) Even though mental illness affects one in five adults – and depression is the […]

Dec. 26, 2019 By Shainna Ali NAMI https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/December-2019/6-Ways-You-Can-Help-a-Loved-One-on-Their-Healing-J Take a moment to consider all the people in your life: your coworkers, friends, family. At any given time, 1 in 5 of these individuals is […]

Dec 18 2019 NAMI https://www.nami.org/Press-Media/Press-Releases/2019/NAMI-Board-of-Directors-Names-Daniel-H-Gillison-Jr-As-New-Chief-Executive NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected […]

Rosalynn Carter adds support for parity follow-through, saying “We have to make mental health care on a par with everything else.”

Thirty years ago, I was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia. My prognosis was “grave”: I would never live independently, hold a job, find a loving partner, get married. My home […]