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Resources to vanquish schizophrenia
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items Schizophrenia is ALL CONSUMING. It needs a ton of support and care. These are things we have come across in our battle with Schizophrenia and trying to thrive despite SMI=serious mental illness
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Our Journey Documented
Journeys we support
Support system experts
Our Journey Documented
These are places we document the diagnosis for Mi Divina
Documenting the journey while learning how to handle it.
Navigating Schizophrenia | LaLa ✿Indie Maker✿ | Substack
This is the YouTube Channel where we will share firstly our joyrides and as Divina becomes more stable and aware, perhaps she will have something to say regarding her journey.
Navigating Schizophrenia YouTube
Real people curating the tools & information we found along the journey since Divina’s diagnosis of SMI=schizophrenia
Navigating Schizophrenia on Pinterest: Insights, Resources, and Support
You can find our page on FB too. It’s a place to share our writings and draw interest back to our newsletter. It’s also the connection to major advocacy channels on FB that help the SMI community.
Navigating Schizophrenia FB Page
Chat for open conversations about Schizophrenia & SMI=Serious Mental Illness
Navigating Schizophrenia Chat
DM on the Telegram Channel, chat for those who don't use Substack
DM NavigatingSchizophrenia
Journeys we support
Authors with real world experience. These brave families are documenting their journey in hopes to help others.
Mat's Book regarding his Journey with Schizoaffective Disorder
Torn Bindings: Memoir of Schizoaffective Disorder
Mat's Blog where he documents weekly his experiences to becoming aware and having insight into his diagnosis. Clues on how he has been convinced himself to stay on course consistently with medication and support from his loved ones.
Mat’s Blog on Schizoaffective Disorder | Mat Poehler | Substack
Erick's Journey
Erick is another author on Substack who documents his own experiences from his diagnosis. It's very difficult for these authors to put so much out in the open regarding their serious mental illness. I applaud and support as many as possible. Erick's writings have helped tremendously in understanding grandiose delusions, which is something... My hope is to support and help these brave writers to continue.
Erick is another author on Substack who documents his own experiences from his diagnosis. It's very difficult for these authors to put so much out in the open regarding their serious mental illness. I applaud and support as many as possible. Erick's writings have helped tremendously in understanding grandiose delusions, which is something... My hope is to support and help these brave writers to continue.
The Manic Messiah | Erick Wales | Substack
Now I met Sarah, online, early in Divina's diagnosis. She was a great source of information. She is studied, researched, educated, volunteered, and suffered personally from acute psychosis. She is active in the community to inform and protect those with Serious Mental Illness=SMI. Furthermore, she reached out to us in the beginning of our writing regarding Divina's to help point us to great resources that helped us find a footing against the disease.
Please realize, as she herself is struggling to balance her mental health and family, it is a very different journey than one might expect, but don't let it keep you from the abundance of care and knowledge of this seasoned survivor.
Please realize, as she herself is struggling to balance her mental health and family, it is a very different journey than one might expect, but don't let it keep you from the abundance of care and knowledge of this seasoned survivor.
From Psychosis to Mental Health | Sarah Hawkins (she/her) | Substack
I actually found this book in a really unusual method.
The author is a participant in the national postcard week and I received her national postcard with a picture of her book. I looked it up and bought it right away.
Gently Dented: Mind of a Bipolar Schizophrenic
This is another family going through the same type of situation as Davina and me where a family member has a diagnosis with schizophrenia and they're trying to document their Journey.
With a fresh diagnosis it's often very hard to process everything ...
Life with Schizophrenia: A Parent's Reflections | Substack
This is another writer documenting their Journey with their diagnosis of schizophrenia
LIVING WITH SCHIZO | Steve Watson
Koki is it also trying to document diagnosis of her adult child and human centered communication and advocacy
About - Unorthodox Minds
Mama Bear Diaries has forged the path for the rest of us on Substack in her documenting and podcast and her advocacy for serious mental illness.
She has extensive experience in caring for her son and advocacy.
Mama Bear Diaries | Deborah Geesling | Substack
This podcast sets the bar for advocating for your children’s mental health. Schizophrenia can reveal itself as a young adult, but it is a lifelong disorder than needs treatment & support. The Geeslings set a fine example of how envolvement in t...
Mama Bear Diaries | Deborah Geesling | Substack
This is the project MaMa Bear Diaries is documenting and discussing on her POD cast.
P82 Project
Willing to talk about schizophrenia and mental illnes out in the open. Brave and necessary
Schiz & Giggles
Support system experts
These are the advocates who champion for those with SMI and caregivers of those with mental illness
Xavier Amador's 20-year Anniversary Edition. Driven by his family experience, he has become a leading expert in the field. This is one of the first books I wish I would have known about when we started this journey. It is priceless for families.
I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help: 20th Ed.
This is the companion to Xavier Amador's I'm not sick I don't need help with more specialized training in the LEAP method.
Becoming Fluent in LEAP – Partnering - Book 2
One of the agencies for helping caregivers or family members.
National Caregiver Help Desk
Caregiver Resource for Real-Time Peer Support
Kindly Human: Caregiver Resource for Real-Time Peer Support
NAMI started as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in 1979 and has blossomed into the nation's leading voice on mental health.
Homepage
Learning about this group of educators and mental health care professionals who share their expertise.
CURESZ Foundation
Peace River is one of our official charities because of the work they do with families of SMI. They are the mental health pillar in our community.
About - Peace River Center
LVIM is the other charity we fully support. They took great care of Divina when she had no insurance coverage. the Volunteer Medical Center here locally
Home - Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine