September 14, 2009 – 5:00 am
I was sexually abused by two family members before my teen years. I always felt that it was my fault, that I did something to cause it to happen to me. I went to counseling for a very short period. They felt that I would be just fine, that there was no need for their [...]
September 9, 2009 – 10:03 am
For as long as I can remember I didn’t feel like I was quite right. I was a loner at home and at school. Although I became accustomed to my loneliness, I never could learn to like it. I could be in a room full of people and still feel all by myself. My lack [...]
August 31, 2009 – 5:45 am
My mental health issues stem more from childhood abuse than genetics so it is very hard for me to trust anybody or to believe what I am told. I also suffer from a very severe case of ADHD. It has taken me several years and multiple attempts to get the right combination of medication to [...]
August 14, 2009 – 9:41 am
Did you know that people diagnosed with a mental illness are three times more likely to smoke than people without a mental illness?
Did you know that HALF of all cigarettes bought in the USA are purchased by people with mental health problems?
Did you know that tobacco use can interfere with psychiatric medications?
Did you [...]
I got sick with mental illness at age 21 after giving birth to my first child. At the time, I didn’t know I was sick. I just thought I was having the baby blues, crying all the time.
It was hard for me to help with my new baby and my husband at that time didn’t [...]
I have been involved with the “mental health” system since the 1960’s. Things from my earliest past life up until now have always had to have something to deal with the mental sense of who I am as a person and individual: I’ve been depressed and suicidal all of my life since childhood, with the [...]
Chances are that you might wake up with a mental illness tomorrow; that’s 1 in 5. I didn’t choose the illness, it picked me. I really didn’t want it; maybe you’d like to have it instead…
I have bi-polar – there, I said it, like it was a dirty word or something. Well, it’s not! My [...]
“Beyond the Shadows of Stigma” highlights works from a gallery showing produced by participants in the Photovoice course, “Taking off the Blinders: A Project to Combat Stigma and Discrimination.” The 8-minute online video poignantly captures the essence of the Photovoice experience through interviews with participants and the works they created.
Similarly to Northern Lakes CMH’s Photobiography [...]
April 22, 2009 – 12:58 pm
Welcome to the first issue of Northern Lakes CMH Recovery Newsletter!
This newsletter will be published quarterly for people interested in Recovery from a mental illness. Each issue will contain tips, inspirational stories, information about different learning opportunities, conferences and classes, personal expressions, and progress reports about improvements to the Northern Lakes CMH system as it [...]
Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don’t matter
and those who matter don’t mind.
– Dr. Seuss
I remember being different as a kid; growing up I never fit anywhere. Even at a young age I heard voices and my emotions were all over the place. The voices were strong, my world [...]
