By Anonymous in Washington state Author’s note: names and identifying details have been changed. My wife – the person I pledged to stick with through sickness and health, and always […]
17 June 2025By Leslie Carpenter, Legislative Advocacy Manager, TAC Can a family member advocate to start an AOT program? Absolutely! When we have a loved one with a severe mental illness (SMI) […]
01 April 2025By: Anita FisherAnita Fisher is the mother of an adult son living with SMI, advocate, and a mental health family educator. At 18, my oldest son joined the Army and […]
29 August 2024By Anthony Hernandez My son, Aaron Hernandez, violently attacked his mother, Cynthia, and me early in the morning while suffering a psychotic breakdown in September 2014. Prior to the attack, Aaron had been […]
26 January 2022By Brian Stettin A young woman named Kendra Webdale was standing alone on a Manhattan subway platform on the evening of January 5, 1999, waiting to catch a train home after visiting her sister downtown. Without warning or provocation, she was pushed to her death […]
14 December 2021By Kathy Day California severe mental illness advocates lost a tireless advocate last week when we learned of Rose King’s unexpected death following emergency surgery. Rose was known as the Mother of […]
08 December 2021How to share your SMI story and be the change you want to see in the worldBy Eric Smith I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in my teens and schizoaffective […]
08 July 2021By Mary Rossell Fourteen hundred days. That is how many days it has been since my son Kevin died. I remember when I counted the number of days after his […]
14 January 2021By Lisa Dailey My grandmother Daphne Thompson died on New Year’s Day of 2001, less than a year after my younger sister was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at the age […]
21 October 2020Leslie Carpenter, Iowa Family Advocate Reading Delayed and Deteriorating: Serious Mental Illness and Psychiatric Boarding in Emergency Departments, I am reminded of the immense stress our family experienced every time […]
17 November 2019By Lisa Dailey The advocacy community lost a treasured champion for people with severe mental illness last week and our hearts are broken. Gina Burns (GG) passed away on November […]
11 November 2019
