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SPRING 2001

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» NAMI Calls For Routine Screening of Children for Mental Illness

» NAMI Statement On Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act Of 2001

» NAMI's New Executive Director

» NMHA Statement On Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act Of 2001

» Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Teen's World of Irrational Unreality

: If I could gather all the people who suffer from this excruciating disorder, I would tell them to...

» Psychiatric AIDS

: Just as we pay special attention to Pediatric AIDS and Geriatric AIDS, we need to pay attention to...

» Rae Unzicker Dies

: Her articles and essays were widely published, and she was named an Outstanding Woman in America by...

» Recovering Lost Abilities With Computer Technology

: Seemingly irreversible neurological damage can be repaired ... Memory retention, sustaining...

» Remembering Julius Green

: Julius believed that people who are challenged with mental health issues need support, need to be...

» Saint Dymphna: Patron Saint Of The Mentally Ill

: Under Dymphna's patronage, the inhabitants of Gheel have been known for the care they have given to...

» Self-Help Source

: a peer-run project of the Resource Center, Inc., ... sharing as wide a variety as possible of...

» Suicide Survivor

» Taking Charge

: participants identify and achieve personal goals, assess skills, make informed decisions and attain...

» The Procreative Urge

: And then the deeper questions surface. Will I be a good mother? Will I pass on my illness to our ...

» Ward Stories

: Alison Carb Sussman ... is the recipient of an honorable mention in the Amelia Magazine poetry...

» Who Moved my Clubhouse?

: inside walls ... 'terraced' in four, five, and six-foot high ledges await plants to be selected and...

» Writing Ken Steele's Life

: 'What was it like to work with Ken Steele?' asked Danny Frey

» A Pregnant Pause: Anti-Psychotic Medication and Growing a Baby

: Growing a baby while taking anti-psychotic medication can be a reality. I have only to hold my...

» Alzheimer's Disease: The Nightmare

: I will never know where this beautiful and intelligent woman disappeared to. By age 53 she was...

» And The Good News Is….

: the smile on his face, as he helped get the bike out of my car certainly constitutes 'good news.'

» Antipsychotic Medication: A User's Guide - Part I

: All of the older medications were developed by testing to see how effectively they block dopamine...

» Bronx Peer Advocacy Center

» Bush's New Freedom Initiative

» Double Trouble: Gays In Psychiatric Hospitals

: There are many retrograde ideas about homosexuality within the population of psychiatric hospitals....

» Editor-At-Large: As I See It "They're Dying Like Flies"

: If Julius Green, so vitally alive and productive, could succumb to suicide, what about me? What...

» Experiencing The Obstacles Around Me

» Hands-On Graduate Program

: How are the institutions of higher learning adapting to ensure that the new crop of graduates are...

» How Much Can You Earn If You're Receiving SSD?

: Remember, Social Security is a huge bureaucracy that processes enormous amounts of information. So...

» I have a terrible time getting up in the morning. I feel cold and grumpy. Is this part of mental illness?

: I have a terrible time getting up in the morning. I feel cold and grumpy. Is this part of mental...

» LesBiGay-Transgender Program at Heights-Hill Clinic

: A unique program for consumers who suffer from the dual stigma of homosexuality and mental illness...

» Mexican Story Of Schizophrenia

» MHANYS' Annual Legislative Conference

: Mental health workers in the not-for-profit sector continue to be paid at or near the poverty level.

» My Autobiography

» My Detailed Autobiography