Search results for: "suicide"

Courage and Progress

[…] across the nation in urban neighborhoods have adopted trauma-informed curricula and expanded mental health programs and services beginning in early childhood education. We will know when the suicide rate among black children between the ages of 5-12 has decreased. We will know when more African Americans say, “I’m going to see my therapist on […]

How I Recognize My Early Warning Signs of Mania

[…] thrive with bipolar disorder.   Carrie Cantwell is an Emmy-nominated film industry graphic designer with bipolar disorder. She grew up with a bipolar dad who she lost to suicide. She's finishing a book entitled Daddy Issues: A Memoir, about how accepting her diagnosis taught her to forgive her dad and herself. Her blog is darknessandlight.org. […]

My Promise as a Mental Health Nurse

[…] father would criticize psychiatrists, or “shrinks” as he called them. At the same time, he often talked of and gave me lessons about how to die by suicide when I was a toddler and adolescent. These quiet moments of “teaching” gave him focus and kept his mind from unraveling further. The last time I […]

The Many Forms of Mental Illness Discrimination

[…] SMI stay 2-3 times longer in pretrial and face longer sentences. They are less likely to make parole and more likely to cycle through the system or die by suicide.     Three times as many people with SMI are housed in prisons and jails than in hospitals. Yet, only one in three prison inmates receive any form of […]

Coronavirus: Building Mental Health Resilience

[…] Today Therapist Directory, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline: 800-985-5990, NAMI HelpLine: 800-950-6264, Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255.   Author’s Note: My deepest heartfelt thanks to my spouse Izzy Goncalves for helping me reach recovery and be resilient over the past […]

How Therapy Helped Me Manage Trauma

[…] the ability to achieve our life goals, or even maintain our self-confidence. Letting Go of The Lies I Told Myself Eating disorders, depression, self-injury and thoughts of suicide controlled my life during my teen years. If my therapist, or anyone else for that matter, had told me then that my behavior was an unhealthy […]

Quarantining with Borderline Personality Disorder

[…] failing. You're doing your best, and you're doing a great job. Your best is enough, you are enough and you are going to be okay.      National Suicide Prevention Lifeline(1-800-273-8255) Crisis text line (Text HOME to 741741)     Helena Phillips enjoys writing, knitting, painting and drinking coffee. She is on the journey to healing.

Giving Support to Individuals in the Criminal Justice System

[…] group facilitators, the NAMI State Trainer, NNCC psychologists and caseworkers. These meetings address issues that arise in groups and provide additional training on specific topics such as suicide prevention and men’s depression. We also identify program needs and challenges, and strategies to address them. All group facilitators are members of NAMI WNV, giving them […]

From Isolation to Community and Change

[…] have peer-reviewed evidence to support their efficacy. I was recently at NAMI Mercer County in New Jersey and they were collaborating with a local school on a suicide crisis, using Ending the Silence as a key tool. The list of NAMI accomplishments is what pathologists might call TNTC: too numerous to count. However, NAMI’s […]

The Music of the Mental Health Movement

[…] the right, either, with films that inaccurately portray serious mental illness and songs that use words like “crazy” or “psycho.” However, when rappers are highlighting the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and NFL commentators are sporting the NAMI green, I see a unique role in the mental health sphere — perfectly filled by popular culture.  […]