Overcoming the stigma of mental health remains a challenge in America, but it’s an even greater fight in developing countries where suicide ranks alongside — or even higher — than maternal mortality as the leading cause of death among young women. Despite recent reports highlighting the need for greater attention to mental health, many people [...]

Pasadena Villa’s Smoky Mountain Lodge offers treatment and programming for young adults who have mild autism or Asperger’s syndrome. As with Pasadena Villa’s other programs, social, cultural, and recreational activities allow for full implementation of our Social Integration Model (SIM).  The program’s core goals are to provide real life experiences and real time coaching. The [...]

While those with serious mental illness experience more than $192 billion in lost earnings a year,* this figure does not take into account the economic impact on parents and other care givers. A recent survey** found nearly 41 percent of working adults took from four to nine days off work in the past year to [...]

New research from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) offers important insights as to how people with mental illness conceptualize and actualize recovery. The study finds recovery is rooted in identity, defined by NAMI as the place where people living with mental illness find the strength to start again – to believe they deserve [...]