Category Archives: NAMI

Mental Health Bill Caters to Big Pharma and Would Expand …

Murphy Bill proponents point to a lack of institutionally or medically directed mental health treatment as being a primary cause of the alarming rise of violent acts such as school shootings and suicide. However, when we look …

Award recognizes state efforts to make mental health care available …

Earlier this fall, at the Minnesota Association of Deaf Citizens' biennial conference in St. Cloud, the Minnesota Department of Human Services' (DHS) mental health program for people who are deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing was honored …

Ann Ramsay wins National Disability Rights Award | CUPE PEI

A life-changing accident in 2009 left PEI school bus driver Ann Ramsay with paralysis of the lower body. Ramsay retrained and went back to work as a receptionist. She also added disability rights activist to her already …

Stanford physician highlights the “never-ending battle” of PTSD …

Stanford physician highlights the "never-ending battle" of PTSD. VJ Periyakoil, MD, a palliative care physician at Stanford, first met Mr. M, a 78-year-old veteran with heart failure, in the remaining few weeks of his life – when he …

15 celebs who've revealed their mental illnesses in order to help …

Carrie Fisher – Bipolar I Disorder. 5. Leonardo DiCaprio – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Leonardo DiCaprio – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. 6. Brad Pitt – Depression. Brad Pitt – Depression. 7. Miley Cyrus – Depression.