Ruth Deming is an award-winning writer and psychotherapist and director of New Directions of Abington, PA, a nonprofit organization she started in 1986 to provide help and support to people with mood disorders. People...
Stories of Recovery
Ruth Deming (right)
August 07, 2012
David
June 29, 2012
David spent the first half of his life as a sweet, if somewhat hyper, child who enjoyed drawing. The second half he has spent as a struggling and haunted adult battling obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Now, at 34, he’...
Janet Susin at NAMI-NYS Conference
June 08, 2012
A Leader at NAMI Discusses Her Unwavering 25-Year Support of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Like many donors to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, Janet and Myron Susin of Long Island, New...
TAGS: Schizophrenia, Stories of Recovery
Neil Barber
March 20, 2012
The summer before Neil Barber’s junior year in high school, he and three of his buddies decided to experiment with marijuana. Neil’s dad, Greg, recalls the four of them getting “pretty rocked,” but Neil being the only one...
TAGS: Schizophrenia, Stories of Recovery
Victor and Edith, 1935
January 19, 2012
A daughter supports mental health research to ensure other families don’t have to live through what hers did.
Among Janet Larsen’s family mementos, carefully preserved and passed down by her mother, is a...
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