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NAMI Newsline
NAMI McHenry County

NAMI Newsline is published quarterly and features articles on new research, treatment and medications, personal stories of hope and recover, and current news on mental health legislation and policy issues.

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The following are articles in recent issues of the NAMI-MC Newsline. Read the full article on following pages.

DENIAL... RESISTANCE...MANIPULATIVE ... OR IS IT ANOSOGNOSIA ????
Are there really people with serious mental illness who honestly don't know they're sick ? - YES unequivocally.!

ATTENTION: Don't Forget Your Oxygen Mask! or...Don't Forget Your Umbrella
In A Rain-Storm!
A Little Reminder About Dealing With Stress and Your Self Care

HERBAL ENEMY NO. 1
Warning : weight-loss aids can be potentially dangerous

BLACK HOLES AND TUNNELS
A consumer's story

SCHIZO AFFECTIVE DISORDER
It is clear, that Schizoaffective Disorder is one of the most complex illnesses identified by psychiatrists and its name joins two distinctly devastating neurobiological disorders

MEDICATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
We want to make you aware of two possible sources of obtaining free medication if you qualify under the sponsor's criteria.

INFO ABOUT SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (SAD)

MENTAL ILLNESS CAUSED BY LACK OF GOOD OLD FASHIONED WILL POWER.
You may have read this headline and reacted negatively to whoever would be so ignorant to write such a statement. Yet this is just one of the many myths that is perpetuated each and every day by millions of people about mental illness.

NOBODY HAS TO KNOW
The National Mental Health Association has announced the launch of a new Web site enabling people to take a confidential screening test online for depression and find reliable information on the illness.