NSSC member and Policy Action Committee co-chair Laura Craciun is interviewed by Just a Mom Podcast as they explore untreated cannabis-induced psychosis and anosognosia. Listen to the episode here.

NSSC member and mental health advocate Cohen Miles-Rath shares his story with AwareNow Magazine in the article found in the Justice Edition here. Miles-Rath bravely tells his story of psychosis and how it affected his life and family before getting treatment. Today he is a published author and social worker who is actively working to help others with serious mental illness.

NSSC Member and mom to son with a serious brain brain disorder, Laura Craciun, shares her story of how she continues to fight for justice for him. Follow the link to read the full story here.

To read the article written by NSSC member Darrell Herrmann, follow this link.

To read the article written by NSSC member Darrell Herrmann, follow this link.

by member Yiacha Provencher

Member Yaicha Provencher bravely shares her story in collaboration with AwareNow Media. Losing Everything: A Family Man Loses His Mind & Everything Else highlights the failures of Maine’s leadership and the mental health system to educate families, clinicians, and law enforcement on the use of a Progressive Treatment Program (Maine’s version of AOT) for treatment of those too sick to seek treatment on their own. Sadly, their entire family was failed, leaving “scars, heartache, and trauma.”

by member and Arizona Mad Mom Christen White

Member and Arizona Mad Mom, Christen White, shares her son Matthew’s heartbreaking story, The Chance He Never Had. Matthew went from having a seamlessly normal life to one of chaos and loss when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. This story once again emphasizes the failures of our current system throughout the country in treating those living with a serious mental illness, a treatable neurological brain disease.

To read the article about NSSC Member Darrell Herrmann, follow this link.