DBSA President Sue Bergeson's Mental Health Blog

  I thought this article about filing for SSDI was so important that I wanted to run a copy of it as my blog this week. It's from Allsup, a leading nationwide provider of financial and health care related services to people with disabilities; they help people receive their entitled Social S...

I attended the recent U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA) conference here in Chicago ... it was great! If you have never heard of USPRA, you might want to check out their website and see what they do: www.uspra.org   During one of the sessions I attended, the presenter (a p...

Bill Emmit, CEO of one of the largest and most influential mental health lobbying groups in DC, recently sent an e-mail to the CEOs of all the organizations who are part of the lobbying group, Campaign for Mental Health Reform. In his message, he attached part of a story from The Washington ...

Recently, I talked about an article in Current Psychiatry that I found frustrating. This week, I want to highlight one I thought was interesting and has some value to us as consumers. In the June 2007 issue of Current Psychiatry, Dr. David L. Wagner suggested a new way to identify when hypom...