NAMI Blog

Coming Out with Bipolar Disorder

My Promise as a Mental Health Nurse

Mental Illness Should Not Be a Secret

Two Antidotes to Stigma

Don’t Invalidate My Depression

Things Not to Say to a Parent of a Child with Mental Illness

Here’s What People Get Wrong About Depression

What I Wish Others Hadn’t Said After My Hospitalization

Clarifying the Nature of Psychiatric Diagnoses

How Being Hospitalized Changed My Perception of Mental Illness

Borderline Personality Disorder Myths and Facts

The Difference Between a Disorder and a Feeling

PTSD is More Likely in Women Than Men

The Messy Truth About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Six Myths and Facts about Mental Illness

We Need to Take Suicide Prevention More Seriously

What to Do When You Say the Wrong Thing to Someone with Mental Illness

How Labels Impacted My Mental Health

To the Moon and Back

My OCD Confession