Category Archives: NAMI

6 Strategies for High-Functioning Bipolar Disorder | Bipolar Laid Bare

6 Strategies for High-Functioning Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is debilitating. The mood swings involved are more than just happy to sad and back again. The hopelessness of depressive episodes can lead to suicide.

Having borderline personality disorder helps me in my NHS job …

For five years I was passed from one mental health professional to another. These appointments were months apart, often less than half an hour, and I wasn't offered any treatment. I was asked to remove my clothing, and a …

Mental health campaign aims to end the indignity of out-of-area care …

Mr Lamb's motion requests that the “House expresses concern that 2,119 mental health patients were receiving non-specialist care in hospitals outside their local area at the end of July 2015… and notes that one in five of …

Patient-Centered Team Treatment of Schizophrenia Works Best | BU …

Kim Mueser has spent decades helping people with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses recover and rebuild their lives. A Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences professor and executive director of …

Video takes a bipartisan approach toward treating mental illness …

If you missed it, the short documentary film about mental illness, including depression and anxiety — “Opening Minds, Ending Stigma: A Young Person's Perspective” — that first aired Saturday night on WDIV-TV can be viewed …