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June is Men’s Health Month — a time to break the silence around men’s mental health. Learn how to support, speak up, and ...
NAMI urges the Senate to reject harmful Medicaid and SNAP cuts in the House budget bill that threaten millions of Americans' ...
One of NAMI’s strategic priorities is for people to get the best possible mental health care. There are many barriers to accessible, comprehensive, and affordable mental health care, and studies ...
Millions of American’s lives are impacted daily by mental health conditions. To show our support, NAMI participates in several annual mental health awareness events. Participating in a local or ...
Exposure to traumatic events can have long-lasting mental health impacts on individuals and their families. Join NAMI for a panel discussion on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sharing lived ...
In this episode of NAMI’s podcast, NAMI CEO Daniel H. Gillison Jr. talks with Dr. Devika Bhushan, Dr. Napoleon Higgins and Angelina Hudson about stigma and mental health equity. You can find ...
Arlington, Virginia– Today the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization, released a guide to answer frequently asked questions regarding ...
As mental health experts and people living with mental illness know all too well, the stigma surrounding mental illness can be highly destructive. Indeed, negative and discriminatory attitudes that ...
You may see self-care as a luxurious act of pampering yourself. You may have thought to yourself, I should enact this ritual of personal dedication, resolving to begin a self-care practice immediately ...
As we enter a new decade, it’s important to remember that early NAMI pioneers were up against a society that didn’t understand, let alone talk about, mental illness. People with mental illness and ...
Schizophrenia may be the most poorly understood and stigmatized mental illness diagnosis. It affects less than 1% of the population and begins early in life, especially in males. The stereotypical ...
When thinking about effective pathways to recovery, the mental health community must consider a largely untapped resource: Certified Peer Specialists (CPSs). People with mental illness who are ...