DBSA President Sue Bergeson's Mental Health Blog

I was thinking more about all the work I did recently with my brothers and their wives, helping my parents clean their windows and clear out brush around their yard in anticipation of the winter. It was a friendly, although tiring day. My parents seemed the most energetic of any of us! And boy, w...

Recently, when I was helping my brothers, their wives and my parents clean my parents' windows and yard in anticipation of winter, my dog Cassie became obsessed with the rain spout. Yes, the rainspout, the gutter-that big piece of pipe coming off the eaves of the house that funnels rain so th...

I was pleased to be invited in September to participate in the National Wellness Summit for People with Mental Illnesses. It was convened by the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), part of SAMHSA, which is a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. About 100 of us, repr...

I was in DC again recently. It seems to me I spend three out of every four weeks there for one thing or another. It's hard thinking about policy issues when I, like some of us, just need to breathe in and out and make it through the next day and the next day after that. But policy determines...

I have long enjoyed the beauty of handmade items. I tend to be moved more by functional art--stuff you can use like pottery or glass--than by any other form of art. So, it's no wonder that quilts have caught my eye for years. Since I became president of DBSA, I have decked the halls of our wo...