(Image used courtesy of taliesin turtlehawk2002@yahoo.com) NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) NYC Metro will be holding an education event on June 26, is “Mental Illness and the Mind-Body Connection”.
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Daniela’s birthday is this Saturday. She will be turning 40 years old. This has always been a difficult day for me because she has been mentally ill since she was in her teens.
My mother’s room has pictures of me scattered all around; she is definitely a proud mother. Well, the other day she told me that she walked into her room and saw that all of the pictures were missing. In the past, Daniela (my schizophrenic sister), would often tear up or throw away pictures, so my mother was a bit worried. She walked over to Daniela’s room and was amazed. Daniela had taken all of the pictures from my mother’s r...
“One of the first reasons I wanted to play the trumpet is that it healed me.” -Tom Harrell, trumpet player. Jacob and I went to the famous jazz club in NY, Village Vanguard on Friday night to watch the Tom Harrel Quintet. We were lucky enough to be sitting in the front row. Anybody that has never seen Tom Harrel perform, if you have a chance to watch him perform, DO NOT MISS IT. I have always had a passion for jazz and especially for sensit...
On April 25, 2010 there will be a Mental Health Film Festival at St. Francis College 182 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights (For tickets call Carla at 212-780-1400 x7726) $5.00 if bought ahead of time and $7.00 at the door. This starts at 12:30PM and here are the movies: LENS & PENS shows those with criminal backgrounds changing their lives due to an art program. TO SEE WHAT I SEE depicts mental health recipients telling their personal reco...
Anybody that deals with somebody that has a mental illness knows how it feels to live on a roller coaster. One moment they are great and then the medications plateau.
Today was my second Columbia presentation to the medical students and I had a huge realization at the end…
Imagine suddenly ending up in a hospital in a complete manic state. Now, imagine if your family trusted the first doctor and you spent the rest of your life in an institution instead of being released after only a month..
Glenn Close, the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (CABF), Fountain House, and Garen and Shari Staglin of IMHRO (International Mental Health Research Organization) started this non-profit to bring down the stigma against mental illness, Bring Change 2 Mind! I am very grateful for this because many people that either have mental illness or have a family member, loved one or friend with a mental illness understand the stigma that can be atta...
Today was my first Ambassador presentation at Columbia University. I had to show up at Columbia and talk about what it was like growing up with my sister Daniela, who is schizophrenic. I felt that I was dragging my feet a bit before leaving the apartment today because I knew it was going to be one draining hour. I was extremely nervous, who wouldn’t be, talking in front of medical students? Phwee. Serious. Luckily, it turned out well. The ...
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