Welcome to the National Mental
Health Awareness Campaign's website.
Our organization is a nationwide nonpartisan public education campaign that was launched as part of the 1999 White House Conference on Mental Health. We are dedicated to battling the stigma, shame, and myths surrounding mental disorders that prevent so many people from getting the help they need.
During the past 9 years we have educated millions of people through our speaker's bureau, public service announcements, Town Hall Meetings, media outreach and printed materials. We hope you will enjoy learning more about our organization. Please understand that our goal is to provide education and create a more accepting environment for people to seek help. We do not offer clinical advice or guidance of any kind. If you need help please click on help or go to our mental health links page.
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The Heard - Our Speakers' Bureau
Meet Lizzie Simon
When Lizzie Simon was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of seventeen, she thought she had reached a dead end. After traveling across the country interviewing people with bipolar disorders, Lizzie published her own book about how people successfully managed the problem.
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- Information Overload
- I’m traveling in the backwaters of Southern India where we have no newspapers, phone, access to internet, or westerners giving us the news. It makes me wonder—do I comsume too much information? Does it contribute to my anxiety and depression? What is the right balance to strike?
Lizzie Simon
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- Nature
- Nothing like a new experience in nature to enliven the mind. I’d never been white water rafting before, and had the opportunity to do it down the Ganges. In my mind it was a trip floating in a raft, where surely someone else would paddle if need be. But in preparing us they kept teaching [...]
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- Healers
- I’ve always been curious about non-Western health and healing practices, and here in India it’s easy to explore. Yesterday we met with a hypnotherapist who engaged us in a meditation about light that was meant to bring important memories to the surface. The memory I received was of myself as a young kid–maybe eight years [...]
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