Free mental health classes

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BOUNTIFUL -- The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Davis County is offering a 12-week family education course beginning today, Sept. 4, at the Davis Behavioral Health building, 470 Medical Drive, Bountiful. There is no cost to participants in the Davis County Family-to-Family Education Program.

Classes are structured to help family members understand and support their ill loved one while maintaining their own well being. The course is taught by a team of trained volunteer family members who know what it's like to have a loved one with mental illness in the family. The classes will help parents, spouses, siblings, friends and significant others deal with the issues of living with a loved one who has been diagnosed with a major mental illness. The top three are schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression.

Mental illnesses are biologically based brain disorders. They cannot be overcome through "will power" and are not related to a person's "character" or intelligence.

Mental illnesses are medical conditions that disrupt a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. Just as diabetes is a disorder of the pancreas, mental illnesses are medical conditions that often result in a diminished capacity for coping with daily events.

Other serious mental illnesses include obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder. The good news about mental illness is that recovery is possible.

Registration is required and class size is limited to 20. To register, call Jim at 725-0746 or Carolyn at 532-0237.

NAMI has a state organization in all 50 states as well as in Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.

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