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Some people see life as a battle. Every encounter is a struggle. Others see life as an adventure. A new day brings new opportunities to explore. If something goes badly today, there's always tomorrow.

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May is Mental Health Month

Wednesday April 28, 2010

May is Mental Health Month.

Across the country the National Alliance on Mental Illness will be hosting walks and other events to address the need for an improved mental health treatment program.

Date Walk Site Location
May 1, 2010 NAMI Fresno Fresno, CA
May 1, 2010 NAMIWALKS Ventura County Ventura, CA
May 1, 2010 NAMI Delaware Wilmington, DE
May 1, 2010 NAMI Greater Orlando Maitland, FL
May 1, 2010 NAMI Kansas Topeka, KS
May 1, 2010 NAMI Metropolitan Baltimore Baltimore, MD
May 1, 2010 NAMI Maryland College Park, MD
May 1, 2010 NAMI North Carolina Raleigh, NC
May 1, 2010 NAMI New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
May 1, 2010 NAMI Greenville Greenville, SC
May 1, 2010 NAMI Dallas, Inc. Dallas, TX
May 1, 2010 NAMI Metropolitan Houston Houston, TX
May 2, 2010 Greater Philadelphia NAMIWalk Blue Bell, PA
May 8, 2010 NAMI Johnson County Iowa City, IA
May 8, 2010 NAMI Maine Portland, ME
May 8, 2010 NAMI New York City Metro New York, NY
May 8, 2010 NAMI Hamilton County Cincinnati, OH
May 15, 2010 NAMI Colorado Denver, CO
May 15, 2010 NAMI Connecticut Hartford, CT
May 15, 2010 NAMI Massachusetts Boston, MA
May 15, 2010 NAMI Berkshire County Pittsfield, MA
May 15, 2010 NAMI South Dakota Sioux Falls, SD
May 15, 2010 NAMI San Antonio San Antonio, TX
May 15, 2010 NAMI Washington State Walk - May 15, 2010 Seattle, WA
May 15, 2010 NAMI Greater Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI
May 22, 2010 NAMIWalk San Francisco Bay Area San Francisco, CA
May 22, 2010 NAMI Mercer NJ Titusville, NJ
May 22, 2010 NAMIWALKS Oklahoma Oklahoma City, OK
May 22, 2010 NAMI Waukesha Waukesha, WI
May 23, 2010 NAMI Long Island/Queens Area Walk Wantagh, NY
May 23, 2010 NAMI Northwest Walk Portland, OR
May 29, 2010 NAMI Arkansas North Little Rock, AR
May 29, 2010 NAMI St. Louis St. Louis, MO

For more information on NAMI and the walks this month, visit the NAMI Website.

Shootings at Fort Hood; alleged gunman is mental health worker

Friday November 6, 2009

Thirteen people were killed and several more wounded in a shooting in Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday.

The alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist at Darnall Army Medical Center in Fort Hood, has been taken into custody.

Hasan is a licensed psychiatrist and has treated soldiers for post-traumatic stress disorder. Military officials say Hasan had recently received orders to deploy to Afghanistan.

For updates, see CNN.com.

Trauma Therapy from the Client's Perspective

Friday July 28, 2006

Bonnie Burton is a trauma survivor who writes about therapy from the inside. As a gifted writer, she conveys some essential truths about the process of therapy, and shatters some stereotypes along the way. Her experiences with good therapists and not-so-good therapists are essential reading for client and therapist alike.

Ms. Burton's own experience of therapy convinces her, for example, that trauma survivors don't always make the best trauma therapists. This is especially true if they never completed their own therapy. She has seen them react with fear and dissociation in response to traumatic material or negative emotions expressed in a session.

While we don't learn who her current therapist is, it is clear that they are working together toward healing. She writes with clarity and maturity; and without a chip on her shoulder. It is a privilege to publish an article from a guest author who is such an articulate therapy client. This article will help me be a better therapist.

Read Bonnie Burton's insightful article.

Resilience

Wednesday July 26, 2006
©Jupiter MediaWhy do some people develop post-traumatic stress disorder after a trauma and others remain symptom free? We are still trying to understand resilience, one characteristic of good mental health.

Researchers studying survivors of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attack have been surprised to find many of them to be free of PTSD symptoms. Resilience was less common among people who were actually in the buildings or in the immediate area, but the researchers report that even for "highly exposed individuals" the frequency of resilience never fell below one third.

Read more about resilience and the World Trade Center research.

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