Oct 11, 2023 | Mental Health Articles
By Victoria Harris, MD, MPH. In NAMI’s Fall 2020 issue of the Advocate, I told my story of experiencing delirium and psychosis for over a year and then finding myself incarcerated in a small county jail. While recovering from psychosis, I relied on the principles of...Oct 2, 2023 | NAMI Announcements
By Emalee Gillis, NAMI Spokane Blog Editor. Seven bakeries in Spokane are putting their creative energies into designing depressed cakes. The only instruction given was that the cakes should be gray on the outside and colorful on the inside, similar to the way a...Sep 27, 2023 | Mental Health Articles
By Emalee Gillis, NAMI Spokane Blog Editor. In Spokane County in 2020, males died by suicide at 5 times the rate of females according to statistics from the Spokane Regional Health District. In 2020, the crude suicide rate among males of all ages in Spokane County was...Sep 21, 2023 | Mental Health Articles
By Marielys Camacho-Reyes. As I sit here, reflecting on the last few years of my life, I can’t help but think of the day I received the news that my good friend had taken his own life. It was a day that changed my life forever, and one that I will never forget....Sep 13, 2023 | Mental Health Articles
By Emalee Gillis, NAMI Spokane Blog Editor. FailSafe for Life is a local nonprofit in Spokane that provides subsidized workshops to community members and the helper professions to prevent suicide. According to Sabrina Votava, the founder and Executive Director of...