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Elyn Saks JD
Mark Ragins MD
Elyn Saks JD
Elyn R. Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner.[1][2]
Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold, published by Hyperion Books in 2007.[3] She is also a cancer survivor.
Sally Zinman
Mark Ragins MD
Elyn Saks JD
CAMHPRO
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Mark Ragins MD
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Cardum Harmon
CEO, Heart & Soul
San Mateo County
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As CEO of Heart and Soul, Inc., Cardum brings a passion for "meeting people where they are" within the wellness spectrum. Cardum promotes whole person-centered program models and trainings which emphasize an engagement philosophy focused on resiliency, recovery and healthy lifestyle choices. What inspires her most about such an approach is that it allows those in need to experience a process that is non-pathologizing, encourages empathetic responsiveness and places emphasis on an integrated approach. She believes that recovery is possible and real for those who suffer from mental health challenges. As a consumer, she uses her lived experience to create compassionate approaches to mental wellness. Working closely with board members, staff, county representatives, community organizations and mental health advocacy groups, Cardum supports Heart and Soul in being defined as the premier consumer-run mental health services agency in San Mateo County.
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Judi Chamberlin
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Judi Chamberlin
Judi Chamberlin (née Rosenberg; October 30, 1944 – January 16, 2010) was an American activist, leader, organizer, public speaker and educator in the psychiatric survivors movement.
Her political activism followed her involuntary confinement in a psychiatric facility in the 1960s.[1][2]
She was the author of On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System, which is a foundational text in the Mad Pride movement.[3]
Pat Deegan
Judi Chamberlin
Judi Chamberlin
Common Ground Guides
My mission is to help activate and empower mental health services users in their own recovery and to provide peer supporters and clinicians with the know-how to support people in their recovery journey.
I am uniquely positioned to fulfill my vocation because I was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager, went on to get my doctorate in clinical psychology and today lead a company run by and for people in recovery. I am a thought-leader in the field of mental health recovery, have numerous peer-reviewed publications, have held a number of academic appointments, and have carried a message of hope for recovery to audiences around the world.
She is an independent consultant who specializes in researching and lecturing on the topic of recovery and the empowerment of people diagnosed with mental illness. Pat is an activist in the disability rights movement and has lived her own journey of recovery after being diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager.
She is the creator of the CommonGround Approach, which includes CommonGround - a web application to support shared decision making in the psychopharmacology consultation, and RECOVERYlibrary - a collection of recovery oriented resources aimed at providing the tools, the hope, and the inspiration to recovery after a diagnosis of mental illness.
In addition to being the owner of Pat Deegan PhD & Associates, LLC, Pat is an an adjunct professor at Dartmouth College Medical School, Department of Community and Family Medicine. She works with Bob Drake and friends at the Psychiatric Research Center (PRC). The work focuses on the development of electronic information technologies and shared decision making as applied to public sector behavioral health services.
Pat is also an adjunct professor at Boston University, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, where she works with Bill Anthony and friends at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. She also serves on the editorial board of the Center's Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.
Check out her site Common Ground, her Recovery Library, her Toolkits and Store.
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Mary Ann Copeland
Intentional Peer Support
Mary Ann Copeland
Mary Ann Copeland
Mary Ann Copeland
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
Mary Ellen Copeland is an author, educator and mental health recovery advocate. Her work is based on her studies of how people deal with life challenges every day, and how they go on to do the things they want to do and be the kind of people they want to be. Her focus is on shifting the system of mental health care and all health care toward personal empowerment, self-help, prevention and recovery through natural supports, education, training, and research.
Over the past twenty-five years, Dr. Copeland has reached millions of people through her books, media and lectures, empowering people to use the techniques and strategies that others told her had worked for them in their own lives, and more recently to use the Wellness Recovery Action Plan as their personal guide to feeling the way they want to feel and making their life the way they want it to be.
Mary Ellen developed WRAP in 1997 with a group of people who had lived experience of serious mental health challenges. WRAP is now being used by people and in groups around the world. WRAP has been extensively studied and is listed in the federal National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices.
Maurice Benard
Mary Ann Copeland
Maurice Benard
Mental health advocate, television and film actor, and New York Times best-selling author
Maurice Benard is a mental health advocate, television and film actor, and New York Times best-selling author.
He is also MHA’s 2020 Clifford W. Beers Award winner. He started his acting career on the soap opera All My Children, from 1987 to 1990. He then went on to start a career on General Hospital, where he has been for over 25 years. Maurice was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder when he was 22 and institutionalized twice. Now 57, he has spent decades advocating for mental health awareness. He has been very public about his diagnosis and struggles and has used his public platform to educate his fans about mental illness and bipolar. He has worked with multiple mental health organizations - including MHA - over the last two decades, and collaborated with the writers of General Hospital to incorporate his diagnosis into his character Sonny Corinthos’ story line, thereby elevating the conversation and showing viewers the realities of the illness. Benard has won 2 Daytime Emmys for his work on General Hospital.
In early 2020 he published his memoir, Nothing General About It: How Love and Lithium Saved Me On and Off General Hospital and currently runs a
YouTube series called State of Mind every Sunday to discuss mental health and his personal journey.
Kevin Love
Mary Ann Copeland
Maurice Benard
Forward-Center for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Mental Health Advocate
Over the last decade, Kevin Love has taken the league by storm. A unique superstar, Love’s career has been highlighted by five NBA All-Star elections, an NBA Championship in 2016, an Olympic gold medal in 2012, and a FIBA World Championship in 2010. He has also become an undeniable force beyond sports as he helps normalize the conversation surrounding mental health and creates an opportunity for others to do the same.
After documenting his experience with depression and anxiety in a powerful personal essay on The Players’ Tribune, Love quickly evolved into the public spokesperson for mental health awareness among athletes.
Continuing his advocacy in this space, he founded the Kevin Love Fund in 2018, a fund dedicated to inspiring people to live their healthiest lives while providing the tools to achieve physical and emotional well-being.
Since then, Love has been awarded the ESPY Arthur Ashe Courage Award, Change Maker Award by the Child Mind Institute, the NBA Cares Assist Award, and was a ESPY Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award finalist, all due to his work in mental health awareness.
Prince Harry ( Duke of Sussex)
Prince Harry ( Duke of Sussex)
Prince Harry ( Duke of Sussex)
Prince Harry is winning praise from mental health advocates for opening up about how he nearly suffered a mental breakdown and finally sought professional help after suffering for years with grief over the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
Harry’s candid statements came in the mental health podcast “Mad World,” released Monday by The Daily Telegraph.
“I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but my work as well,” he said.
The 32-year-old added, “I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and sort of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle.”
The Duke of Sussex was inspired to bring the Invictus Games to London after visiting the Warrior Games in America 2013. The Duke sees the Games as an important part of a broader legacy of support, through a combination of on-going care, training and employment opportunities, to the well-being of those men and women who have served their country.
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Irit Shimrat is proud to call herself an escaped lunatic. She has been locked up and psychiatrically tortured many times, and has been working to promote human rights within and beyond psychiatry since 1986, when she became editor of Phoenix Rising: The Voice of the Psychiatrized. In the early 1990s she co-founded and coordinated the Ontario Psychiatric Survivors’ Alliance and presented two multi-part shows – “Analyzing Psychiatry” and “By Reason of Insanity” – on CBC Radio’s Ideas program. In 1997 her book Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement was published in Vancouver. She has edited various articles, newsletters and books written by psychiatric survivors; has had several antipsychiatry articles published; has been interviewed in various media; and has given talks at conferences and at universities. Her life is dedicated to exposing psychiatric abuses and promoting non-psychiatric ways of dealing with extreme emotional states.
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