Articles written by Joy Clark

Joy Clark, National Alliance on Mental Illness|Oct 4, 2013

The words to Bob Dylan’s song “The times they are a-changin’” could not be more appropriate for today. October is Mental Health Awareness Month, and for the first time in 13 years the White House held a conference on mental health. An entire nation is now speaking about mental health issues. The fact is one out of four Americans suffers from some form of mental illness that covers a broad spectrum of brain disorders. Depression, as an example, the oldest known malady to man, affects millions; yet, stigma around mental illness persists, rooted...