Add Link To Mental Illness Websites

Writing the term Add link to mental illness was intended be a call to action for me to link this page to websites focusing on mental illness.

It was only recently that I saw what many others saw, a page about how ADD or attention deficit disorder could have a correlation to mental illness.

While there may be some who visit this site page expecting information about a possible link between ADD and mental illness, let me just say there was a time when my wife and I were also exploring that link. We too were desperate parents seeking answers when we first heard the term attention deficit disorder.

I will keep this page focused on my adding links to mental illness websites, and make my first link to an organization that helped us in dealing with the impact of ADD on our family: NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which is the nation’s largest grass roots organization dedicated to improvingthe lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness.

In doing so, I keep to my original plan -- wanting to suggest a mental illness link that could guide those with mental illness questions to find help for their mentally ill loved ones.

Let's face it. Mental illness exists in almost every family I know. Whether families admit their loved one is mentally ill or not, I hope to urge those with mental illness questions to take action in getting help.

Of course, for the purposes of this career change website, a question often asked, at least to ourselves, is "How will a diagnosis of mental illness affect my career?"

The Impact of Mental Illness Upon One's Career

Unfortunately, his decision was made far too late. How late? The day he finally made the decision to treat mental illness in my mother reveals how late. My mother died the very night Dad finally committed my mother to our hospital's psychiatric care unit.

Why would I share such personal information about mental illness? To do all I can to convince families to take action as soon as possible so as to treat mental illness in their loved one.

For me to add a link to mental illness websites is to help you avoid pain and suffering. Yet for me to suggest a mental illness link to other websites will help guide those of you with mental illness questions only if you take action to find help for your mentally ill loved ones.

Had we insisted on a physical examination early on, we could have avoided so much pain, especially for my mother, but for the entire family as well. So if you observe indications of mental illness, take action as quickly as possible to follow the link to th mental illness website suggested here.

Again, I suggest you follow the link to this mental illness URL, http://www.nami.org, with the hope that you avail yourself to NAMI's tremendous mental illness informational resources for understanding mental illness in its many forms.

The Impact of Mental Illness On Ministry Careers

I have met pastors whose decision to expand their ministry beyond that of the local church was based in part upon their spouse having mental illness.

That is why I recommend ChurchStaffing.com to the pastor whose ministry situation may need to be re-evaluated in light of family member being diagnosed with mental illness.

I admire pastors and spiritual leaders whose motivation for changing careers was to meet the needs of a family member whose mental illness required a great deal of time, so they became caregivers.

Of course, there is always the stigma that is associated with mental illness that, for some reason, causes shame. In my opinion, there is greater shame in not responding to mental illness, whereby families ignore mental illness in their loved one.

In their denial of mental illness existing in their home, these families usually experience far greater harm and disruption of their family life and even their career.

Let me encourage you focus upon the needs of your loved ones above all else, in finding help they need in facing mental illness.