Adults with a Serious Mental Illness | HealthGrove The flags will be at half-staff until Tuesday at sunset. The Republican governor issued a statement on Monday that faulted politicians for blaming guns when in his opinion, the nation’s problem with violence is about people with mental illness getting access to guns. “Mental illness is plaguing […]
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NAMI Maine to host Suicide Prevention Awareness Night
AUBURN — NAMI Maine, National Alliance on Mental Illness, will host a a free Suicide Prevention Awareness Night on Thursday, May 1, in Auburn at the Hilton Garden Inn. The training is being sponsored by Tri-Country Mental Health Services, Healthy Androscoggin, Lewiston public schools and the Auburn School Department. The presentation is intended to develop suicide […]
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NAMI chapter to offer ongoing education program
FARMINGTON/RUMFORD — The Maine chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness will offer the Family-to-Family education program from 6 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday from April 24 to July 10 at Franklin Memorial Hospital. The 12-week course is for family, friends and caregivers of teens and adults with mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, […]
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Friends, neighbors of injured Rumford woman remember day of shooting
RUMFORD — Richard Korhonen was taking his dog for a walk Tuesday afternoon when he saw a Rumford police officer standing outside the apartment of Jessica Byrn-Francisco. “I told him, ‘I don’t think she’s home,’ and he told me to call the police if I heard from her,” Korhonen said. When Korhonen returned to his third-floor […]
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C. Anderson: Mental illness — I am vs. I have
There is a stigma growing in this country. There is a large amount of negativity associated with mental disorders. According to the National Institute for Mental Health, one of every four people has a mental illness, whether it has been diagnosed or not. Depression is a mental illness and not a state of being. One […]