09 Sep Living with Schizophrenia: An Interview with NAMI Seattle board member Elliott Neyme
Many people throughout the world live with schizophrenia, and NAMI Seattle board member Elliott Neyme is one of those people. ...
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24 Aug Celebrating Life: An Interview with James Donaldson, NAMI Seattle Board Member
“Around Thanksgiving, I was really having trouble sleeping through the night. I didn’t want to face things. When I’d wake up in the middle of the night, I’d have a lot of dark, scary, negative thoughts,” James Donaldson said to us as he related his...
05 Aug Trauma, Stress, and Covid-19: Mental Health of Frontline Healthcare Workers
By Leah Sheppard, BSN, RN Content warning: // Death, illness The U.S. is entering a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: vaccinations are readily available, and restrictions are lifting, but cases are rapidly increasing in some areas as the Delta variant takes hold. For healthcare workers who've...
21 May My Experience With Anxiety as a Child
I am a person with anxiety; almost no one around me experiences the same thing. I can tell you, it’s hard....
05 May The Humanity in Schizophrenia
I was scared the first time I met Matthew. It was many years ago, before I knew much about mental health, and before I became a nurse....
31 Mar The Intersection of the School-to-Prison Pipeline and Mental Health
Cory candidly shares his lived experience and perspective on the school-to-prison pipeline....
22 Mar Meet Emma Sanyal, NAMI Seattle Board Member
By Kyle Kawahara, Nomin Ulziisaikhan, Netanel Younker, Hanson Tran and Nik Gorbs, UW Bothell School of Business “I think it’s important to know that Bipolar Disorder is physical. It’s not a weakness and you can’t just pull yourself out of a depression. Patience is important,”...
17 Mar In Solidarity with the Asian American Community
Our collective mental health is strengthened by our shared humanity....
18 Feb Mental Health and Generational Trauma: A Black Therapist’s Perspective
Photo courtesy of LaVonne Dorsey We had the opportunity to interview therapist LaVonne Dorsey over Zoom. She was comfortably sitting in her home, excited to talk with us as she sipped from a red mug. We asked about her perspective on coping with Covid-19. LaVonne appeared...
20 Jan Eleanor Owen is 100!!!
Eleanor Owen is 100!!! Image created by Artist, Kyle Krauskopf On January 22, Eleanor Owen will celebrate her 100th birthday. If you’ve been around NAMI for a while, you likely know the name. You might know of her role in starting—and then leading for more than twenty...