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Back in November I ran an article about an upcoming movie that tells the true story of a man with Schizophrenia and the man who brought him to the nation’s attention.
Commercials for the movie have been quite common and the reviews seem to all be positive. The movie is opening on Friday, April 24th. If [...]
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The following is an article written by Christian author Dave Burchett. See my previous article introducing Dave and his blog as a resource for visitors to “More Than Coping. Allan
From Crosswalk.com
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Medicated And Unrepentant
Today’s topic has real potential to rile up the spiritual hall monitors. I expect I will hear from many of [...]
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In this article NAMI outlines their vision for transforming the state that our current public mental health system is in. Without a vision or goals there is nothing to strive for. NAMI has provided the nation a target for us to aim at. By God’s grace I pray we see real progress as time moves [...]
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The following is a state by state listing detailing the status of the public mental health system in our nation. Click any state and you will be led to the results and how NAMI came to their decisions. Allan
Reproduced with permission from NAMI.
The following chart may be sorted by each state’s overall grade as well [...]
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The following recap of the research NAMI has done concerning the state of our public mental health services tells us what is lacking in addressing the needs of the mentally ill among us.
This doesn’t mean help is not available for those in need. Being able to locate and utilize that help will require individuals and [...]
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NAMI has just released a comprehensive report on the state of our public mental health system in the United States. It is a very sobering report and I pray that this trend can change, even in these difficult times our nation finds itself in the midst of.
As Christians our hope is in God. He has [...]
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It took me many years to get it when it came to recovering from a mental illness. I saw progress as a graph. Each day the graph would show some amount of progress in my recovery. Anything else was not acceptable.
I tend to be a very black and white person. No room for other options. [...]
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The new stimulus package is a topic of fierce differences of opinion throughout our nation. As this is not a political blog that discussion will take pace elsewhere.
There is news that is exciting for those in the mental health community and those who struggle with mental illness. Below is information taken from [...]
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UPDATE!!! It came to my attention that the remainder of the article that I had linked to vanished and folks were not able to read the entire article. I have found the article in its entirety and am posting it here. It’s an awesome story. I am running this as a new article and deleting [...]
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Words have power. More power than we might imagine. Many of us have felt their sting as well meaning and some not so well meaning people have weighed in about mental illness in our lives.
Words also have the power to encourage and offer hope. We use words to communicate the Gospel. We use them as [...]
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