Marvin Spieler is a well-known advocate who has been associated with local AMI organizations and the Mental Health Association in New York City. He has run a Speaker's Bureau, offering consumers and family members as speakers before different groups. Spieler himself speaks regularly to social work and other college students on the subject of mental illness.

: Is incest a psychological problem? No. Is the resulting trauma a cause for psychological problems?...

: Have you ever heard of a mental illness Walk-A-Thon ... But why not? Stigma is the reason. We feel...

: The police have always had special duty units ... why not an Emergency Service Unit for people in...

: Mental illness I've learned to live with. However, I can't forget the court rooms, prison transport...

: Where are these ER personnel and doctors in general coming from!? Didn't they learn about mental...

: For me, Bellevue was my second home. I know Bellevue's reputation, but for me it was my haven. I...

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

: My depression is still there. But for the moment I feel better.

: It dawned on me as I rode home that we were on the same ward at Kings Park State Hospital.

: Most people consider Bellevue a dump. I always hear complaints about the place but to me, it was a...

: The peer advocacy and peer specialist programs are probably the most uplifting aspects of the...

: You have to believe in your potential. You can't let fear stop you from fulfilling your dreams.

: I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and incest perpetrated by my mother.

: At times, thoughts couldn't be verbalized so I took pen to paper to further the therapy process...

: …we generally are overweight due to the psychiatric medicines and those who smoke or have smoked...

: …sitting in a class almost two hours twice a week and doing homework isn't easy. I plan to obtain a...

: While I counted my thirty-some days in prison, I consider myself lucky compared to today's...

: [I am saddened that in my life] I went with the flow of a rudderless ship. I was not a captain at...

: We can't be kept from voting because of mental illness. We can vote for politicians who understand...

: Lately the media has singled us out once again! This time a schizophrenic has done this; another...

: Medication compliance by coercion and forced hospitalizations are antithetical for recovery from...

: The elements of my illness, quitting, getting fired, then hospitalized, blended into a pattern I...

: For more than a week my menu was spaghetti and ketchup. I was so depressed it didn't faze me.

: Shame on the state! It isn't appropriating sufficient money to remedy this problem. The legislators...