Conversations About Mental Illness

Margery Wakefield talks about Dissociative Identity disorder, Schiozoprenic Disorder and Schizophrenics Anonymous

Leon Evans talks about the state of mental healt services in this country and rehabilitating rather than jailing the mentally ill

Paul Quinn talks about Having A Brother With Schizoaffective Disorder, The State of Mental Health Care in This Country, And The Work of NAMI Six Counties

Sarah Spitz talks about her struggles with mental illness and her work to help peers

Jenna Brown talks about postpartum depression

Leslie Powlette Stoyer, Summit County Maternal Depression Network

Dr. Tim Murphy, Congressman for the 18 District of Pennsylvania and author of HR3717, a comprehensive bill aimed at helping persons with mental illness and their families

DJ Munroe talks about how the National Alliance on Mental Illness helped her with her son, and how she gives back to the organization by helping others.

Formerly known as Hill House, the Clubhouse has been promoting vocational, educational, social and personal achievement as a center of psychosocial rehabilitation in Cleveland since 1961.

John Neibert, Peer Support Specialist, Vancouver Washington VA Medical Center

Brandon W.Fitch, Program Annotator for the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra and Author of Living with the Romanovs: A Young Man's Struggle with Psychosis.

Dr. Stephen Owens, Psychologist at the Veterans Administration Clinic in Athens, Ohio, on post-traumatic stress disorder and the work of that clinic.

Nancy DeLaval Miller talking about her experience living with Dissociative Identity Disorder - what used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder. This disorder is an extreme Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in which the person suffers a severe traumatic experience, followed by the birth of multiple personalities, complete amnesia about the traumatic event, and a dysfunctional life until treated.

Dr. Ron Astor, Professor of Social Work at the University of Southern California and founder of Building Capacity, on the special problems of faced by the children of Post-911 soldiers and veterans and what Building Capacity is doing to help them.

Candace True, Doctor in Musical Arts and Candidate for a Masters of Social Work, on how Dialectical Behavior Therapy has helped her in recovery from three disorders including borderline personality.

Dr. Roberta Payne, author of Speaking to My Madness: How I Searched for Myself in Schizophrenia, on her life and insights.

Shaun Daubney, Communications Office, Newbury College, England, on living with Borderline Personality Disorder, mentalizing therapy, and mental health care in England.

Jill Sadowsky, Israeli mental health activist and author of "David's Story" about her son's tragic struggle with schizophrenia, talking about her experiences, Israeli mental health care, and her activism

Dr. Shari Manning, CEO of The Treatment Implementation Collaborative and Author of "Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder," on Borderline Personality Disorder, its treatment and her book.

Dr. Amy Watson, Department of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago, on coming out of the closet about having mental illness, anorexia, bulimia and bipolar, and being a working professional doing research into various aspects of mental illness