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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
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 Dr. James and Sharon Pitts
Serious mental illness is a real but often unrecognized factor in our daily lives. Illnesses such as depression, bipolar illness, obsessive-compulsive behavior, panic/anxiety feelings, and schizophrenia occur worldwide across languages and national groups.
Poor, rich, and middle-class persons experience mental illness. Age, church attendance, or a person’s level of formal education doesn’t protect a person from the possibility of mental illness.
The following are just a few of a long list of famous people successfully living with their mental illness: singers Mary J. Blige and Janet Jackson, comedian Damon Wayans, and professional athlete Rickey Williams. Other famous notables who also suffered from mental illness were: Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig von Beethoven, Edgar Allan Poe, Michelangelo, and Sir Winston Churchill.
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
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Offered at St. James AME Church
NAMI Family-to-Family, a free class for relatives and friends of individuals diagnosed with a severe mental illness, will be offered from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on 12 consecutive Mondays beginning August 25 at St. James AME Church in Asheville.
The Family-to-Family class will also be given for the first time in Mars Hill on Thursdays, August 28 through November 13, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Sponsored by NAMI Western Carolina, an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the course provides up-to-date facts about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, and co-occurring addictions.
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