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First is was Andrew Koenig, star in the TV show <span style="text-decoration: underline">Growing Pains</span> and son of Star Trek alum, Walter Koenig and now one of Marie Osmund's sons has comitted suicide due to suffering depression.
Some of you may not know this, but since 2005 I have been an instructor for, and am now my community's coordinator for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Family-to-Family education program (video) (and soon for my entire State). We conduct these classes several times a year around the state. Most states have NAMI affiliates, so if you know a family who has a loved one suffering from mental illness, tell them about Family-to-Family and encourage them to contact their local NAMI office for more information. I've not met a family member yet who has taken this course who didn't think it was the best thing they could have ever done to help their ill relative (and themselves).
And by the way, NAMI is having it's annual "NamiWalks for the Mind of America" 5k walk upcoming in May. I will be plugging the event soon looking for "sponsors" to sponsor my team!
Lastly, here's a little quiz. What to the following famous people have in common?
Adam Ant, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Lord Byron, Dick Cavett, Winston Churchill, Kurt Cobain, Charles Dickens, Richard Dryfuss, Patty Duke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carrie Fisher. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Foster, Alexander Hamilton, Mariette Hartley, Ernest Hemmingway, John Keets, Patrick J. Kennedy, Margot Kidder, Vivien Leigh, Axl Rose, Kristy McNichol, Mark Twain, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Ozzy Osbourne, Jane Pauley, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlie Pride, Jean-Claud Van Damme, Vincent Van Gogh, Kurt Vonnegut, Brian Wilson.
Answer:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Click to reveal.. <input type="button" class="form-button" value="Show me!" onclick="toggle_spoiler(this, 'Yikes, my eyes!', 'Show me!')" />]<div style="display: none;">They are all either diagnosed with, or in the case of the older names, thought to have had the serious mental illness now known as Bipolar Disorder. Abraham Lincoln may also have had BiPolar and was known to suffer very severe depression. [/QUOTE]</div>
Some of you may not know this, but since 2005 I have been an instructor for, and am now my community's coordinator for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Family-to-Family education program (video) (and soon for my entire State). We conduct these classes several times a year around the state. Most states have NAMI affiliates, so if you know a family who has a loved one suffering from mental illness, tell them about Family-to-Family and encourage them to contact their local NAMI office for more information. I've not met a family member yet who has taken this course who didn't think it was the best thing they could have ever done to help their ill relative (and themselves).
And by the way, NAMI is having it's annual "NamiWalks for the Mind of America" 5k walk upcoming in May. I will be plugging the event soon looking for "sponsors" to sponsor my team!
Lastly, here's a little quiz. What to the following famous people have in common?
Adam Ant, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Lord Byron, Dick Cavett, Winston Churchill, Kurt Cobain, Charles Dickens, Richard Dryfuss, Patty Duke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carrie Fisher. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Foster, Alexander Hamilton, Mariette Hartley, Ernest Hemmingway, John Keets, Patrick J. Kennedy, Margot Kidder, Vivien Leigh, Axl Rose, Kristy McNichol, Mark Twain, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Ozzy Osbourne, Jane Pauley, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlie Pride, Jean-Claud Van Damme, Vincent Van Gogh, Kurt Vonnegut, Brian Wilson.
Answer:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Click to reveal.. <input type="button" class="form-button" value="Show me!" onclick="toggle_spoiler(this, 'Yikes, my eyes!', 'Show me!')" />]<div style="display: none;">They are all either diagnosed with, or in the case of the older names, thought to have had the serious mental illness now known as Bipolar Disorder. Abraham Lincoln may also have had BiPolar and was known to suffer very severe depression. [/QUOTE]</div>
