Beautiful Minds

The Center for Mental Health Launched an anti-stigma campaign to celebrate the famous and not-so-famous people living with mental illness. So many people who lived with mental illness continue to enrich our lives:
Michelangelo, Beethoven, John Keats, Abraham Lincoln, Virginia Woolf, Vincent Van Gogh, Charles Dickens, Meriwether Lewis, Isaac Newton, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Vivien Leigh, Tennessee Williams, and Leo Tolstoy to name a few.

There are also many Beautiful Minds among us everyday. They are living examples of mental health recovery:  Terry Bradshaw, Patty Duke, Carrie Fisher, Margot Kidder, John Forbes Nash,  Jane Pauley, J.K. Rowling and Mike Wallace.  Click to watch this video with a series of Beautiful Minds. 

Most importantly, we remember to celebrate the not-so-famous friends and family members who live with mental illness.

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Fundraising breakfast benefits "Beautiful Minds"

Center for Mental Health Foundation is pleased to announce that Cambridge Place selected "Beautiful Minds" to be the recipient this year's first monthly fundraising breakfast proceeds. 

Three C4MH peers stepped forward to tell their recovery stories at the breakfast.  USAF Veteran James Hollimon spoke about his new career of becoming a peer specialist and

Longest Night Vigil: National Homeless Persons Memorial Day

 

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle" ~James Keller

Dozens gather at New Directions Center for National Homeless Persons Memorial Day

About 40 people circled up in the parking lot of the New Directions Center in Great Falls on Wednesday night as part of National Homeless Persons Memorial Day during the Longest Night celebration.

It was a brisk night with almost no breeze.

Heidi Gibson, director

Stories inspire others to beat the odds for homelessness

 Shortly into adulthood, Vernon Bishop, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression, quit taking his medication.

He spun into a manic episode and spent every dime he had on a home theater system. When it came time to pay the rent, Bishop didn't have any money left.

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