Suicide Hotline:
Are you in crisis? Please call 1-800-273-TALK
Are you feeling desperate, alone or hopeless? Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), a free, 24-hour hotline available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. Your call will be routed to the nearest crisis center to you.
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- A network of more than 140 crisis centers nationwide
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NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health):
Transforming the understanding and treatment of mental illness through research nimh.gov
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness): nami.org
From its inception in 1979, NAMI has been dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness.
For three decades, NAMI has established itself as the most formidable grassroots mental health advocacy organization in the country. Dedication, steadfast commitment and unceasing belief in NAMI’s mission by grassroots advocates have produced profound changes. NAMI’s greatest strength is the dedication of our grassroots leaders and members. We are the families, friends and individuals that serve to strengthen communities across the country.
Due in large part to generous individual, corporate, and foundation donations, NAMI is able to build on its success and continue to focus on three cornerstones of activity that offer hope, reform, and health to our American community: Awareness, Education, and Advocacy.
An Unquiet Mind…A Memoir of Moods and Madness: (by Kaye Jamison)
From the Inside Flap:
As a founder of UCLA’s Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective — as healer and healed — that makes Jamison’s memoir so lucid, learned, and profoundly affecting.
Even as she was pursuing her psychiatric training, Jamison found herself succumbing to the exhilarating highs and paralyzing lows that afflicted many of her patients. Though the disorder brought her seemingly boundless energy and mercurial creativity, it also propelled her into spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempt at suicide.
Powerfully candid, exceptionally wise, An Unquiet Mind is one of those rare books that has the power to transform lives — and even save them.
A Beautiful Mind…The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash: (by Sylvia Nasar)
John Forbes Nash’s mathematical research would eventually win him a Nobel prize, but only after he recovered from decades of mental illness. Nasar tells a story of triumph, tragedy, and enduring love. A Beautiful Mind (book)
Girl, Interrupted: (by Susanna Kaysen)
When reality got “too dense” for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon reality possess Kaysen’s lucidity in sorting out a maelstrom of contrary perceptions. Her observations about hospital life are deftly rendered; often darkly funny. Her clarity about the complex province of brain and mind, of neuro-chemical activity and something more, make this book of brief essays an exquisite challenge to conventional thinking about what is normal and what is deviant. Girl, Interrupted (book)
FILMS (where a major character has a mental illness):
Rain Man (1988) – Autistic Disorder
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) – Anxiety Disorder
The Hours (2002) – Clinical Depression
Fight Club (1999) – Dissociative Disorder
Matchstick Men (2003) – Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The Informant! (2009) – Bipolar Disorder
Black Swan (2010) – Schizophrenia
R.I.P. SKH
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