Check out Prince William and Lady Gaga as they team up to end the silence about the importance of mental health treatment.
Prominent figures talk to their younger selves:
Child Mind Institutes’s Month of May Media Campaign to Help Decrease Stigma
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Incredible article by Paul Gionfriddo that spells out once again the reasons why mental illness should not be demonized and stigmatized.
"There are more reasons, too, but the bottom line is this: When Clifford W. Beers, the founder of the modern mental health advocacy movement, said more than one hundred years ago that 'I must fight in the open,' he shed light on systemic failures and abuses that had been hidden behind institutional doors for decades. No reasoned person would want to go back there."
#HateisNotaMentalIllness
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August 16, 2019 "Yesterday, President Trump suggested once again that the solution to violence in America is to put more people with mental illnesses into institutions. There are so many flaws in this logic. "First, hate is not a mental illness. And people who hate should never be allowed to hide be...As you know...MENTAL HEALTH depends on more than a one-size-fits-all package! Join NAMI's FREE Webinar on Wed., August 28th at 3:00 pm. Sponsored by SAMHSA. Learn about care that involves the person AND the family. Register here: adobe.ly/316maon
Focus on the Family: Using Person and Family Centered Care for Mental Health
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No Tie Between Mental Illness and Gun Violence
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President Trump called for better identification of people with mental illness as a way to stop gun violence and mass shootings. A psychiatrist offers his take on the president's stance.“Hubrins "knew how to talk to me and interact with me and calm me down when I had a really chaotic state of mind," Tannenbaum says. "There was just a different vibe with her. … It was definitely a lot more casual than the treatment facility." “
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A Connecticut program aims to meet kids in crisis where they physically are.