WHAT: NAMIWalks Rally WHEN: Thursday, February 21, 2019 (9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.) WHERE: Whole Foods Market (6891 Daniels Pkwy Ste 100, Fort Myers, FL 33966) The Rally is Hosted and Sponsored by Whole Foods Market. There will be special treats from Norman Love.
Read MoreFor the fifth year in a row, Mental Health America (MHA) released its annual State of Mental Health Report, which ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on several mental health and access measures. This year, Minnesota came out on top overall with Nevada coming in 51st. The report also dives into more »
Read MoreRecently, NAMI partnered with the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) to create the Circle of Care guidebook, a new toolkit to provide resources and information to help friends, family and neighbors who care for an adult with a mental health condition. The guidebook is made up of fact sheets to assist caregivers with finding help more »
Read MoreJanuary 31 Kelly Burch Many of Christine Walker’s friends are just starting to help their teenage children plan to leave home, whether for a job, college or a gap year. But Walker’s 16-year-old son Schuyler has already lived away from his family for seven years, spending nearly half his life in residential treatment programs and more »
Read MoreBy Chris Aiken, M.D. | Feb. 06, 2017 “You seem like you’re walking on eggshells,” our family therapist told me with a wise nod. The image of cracked eggs under my bare feet was strangely comforting compared to what our family was really going through. We were living with mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. Psychiatrists more »
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