Make It Ok to Talk About Mental Health
Prior to our current pandemic, nearly 20% of people experienced some form of mental illness. Now that we are in the middle of it, mental health challenges have affected even more people. Unfortunately, most of those affected by mental illness either delay seeking help, often for years, or not at all, primarily due to the stigma associated with it.
The "Make It OK" presentation is designed to help reduce stigma by doing three things. First, to increase awareness of what is stigma and mental illness. Second, to inform people what and what not to say to someone who has shared that they have a mental illness. And, third, to identify resources you could use to increase your understanding of mental illness and contribute to ending the stigma surrounding it.
- Date:
- Tuesday, January 26, 2021
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Virtual
- Branch:
- Virtual
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Educational
- Attachments:
Terry Haru, Ph.D., is the board president of the Greater Mississippi Valley affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). He retired six years ago as the Chief Compliance Officer at Heritage Behavioral Health Center in Decatur, IL. His previous professional stints have been a supervisor for programs for individuals with serious and persistent mental illnesses, an outpatient therapist, and a college professor. He loves to read biographies/history, watch documentaries, and write short stories and poetry. In the past few months, he discovered, to his great surprise, via the genetic service 23&Me, four half-siblings with whom he is now, with much warmth and excitement, getting to know.