Category Archives: NAMI

Killer

Whenever there’s a mass shooting, people who support gun rights start lining up around the block to call for better mental health care. They’re implying, quite disingenuously, that people with mental illness are responsible for most killing sprees. It’s a lie and they know it’s a lie. Watch John Oli …

Life Bugs and the need to find Some Stress Hacks

As you go through life there comes a good deal of maturity – that is to say that you make better decisions and enjoy life based on rational learning experiences over many years, through trial and error where learning from mistakes and through the luck of close shaves or the misfortunes in life from …

The Personality Traits That Make Us Feel Like Frauds

At some point in your professional life, you’ve probably felt like a fraud. Maybe you were praised for something you thought wasn’t worthy of the accolades, or you maybe you were recognized in front of peers but felt unworthy, certain you’d soon be exposed as undeserving of the attention. You’re not …

I Am a Divine Idea in the Mind of God

We have a quote by Ernest Holmes in the lobby of our Center that states that we are each “… a Divine Idea in the Mind of God.” I contemplate the meaning of this quote. What does it mean to be a “Divine Idea in the Mind of God?” The word idea is defined as ” any conception existing in the mind as a …

Slipping Into Psychosis: What It’s Like To Be A 20-Something With Schizophrenia

lolamyers I remember it vividly: twelve years old, sitting on a bench, watching the floor morph into moving pictures. First a face, slowly turning from left to right; next, a sailboat on choppy waves. I thought everyone saw the world like I did, that everyone’s reality wiggled and squirmed when scru …