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Patient & Caregiver Resource Center

Whether you live with a mental illness yourself or you provide support to someone who does, this resource center is for you. It features information that individuals can use to learn about their condition and to help them as they work with providers toward recovery. And if you are an advocate for someone with a mental illness, you will find here tools to help you become a more effective one.

I Am A Caregiver

Someone you care about has a mental illness. Educating yourself about your loved one’s mental health condition is the first step toward providing strong, informed support.

I Am A Patient

If you have recently been diagnosed with a mental health condition, you are not alone. Millions of Americans live with mental illness. In this section of the Patient & Caregiver Resource Center, you will find resources to educate yourself about your condition and to become an advocate for your own recovery.

I Am A Provider

Are you a health care professional who cares for someone with a mental illness? This section of the Patient & Caregiver Resource Center contains tools to help you in your interactions with patients and their caregivers and advocates.

For more firsthand perspective and insights from those living with mental illness, visit OPEN Mental Health

Featured Resources

8 Dimensions Of Wellness Workbook: Creating Balance & Healthy Habits In Every Area Of Your Life

8 Dimensions Of Wellness Workbook: Creating Balance & Healthy Habits In Every Area Of Your Life

Wellness is a multi-dimensional integration of oneself and their environment. This workbook contains information on each of the 8 Dimensions of Wellness, highlighting their importance and how they can impact one’s overall wellbeing. For each dimension, you will find a checklist of strategies and healthy habits that can be implemented…
Hot Topics: Clinical Questions in Schizophrenia – Question II

Hot Topics: Clinical Questions in Schizophrenia – Question II

Dr. Christoph U. Correll will address current and relevant clinical questions relating to schizophrenia. These questions and Dr. Correll’s response will be recorded and released as short videos.   The use of Long Acting Injectables (LAIs) is included less often overall in the available clinical practice guidelines and less still…

Support Tools

Understanding Bipolar Disorder

Understanding Bipolar Disorder

Download Resource Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that affects people’s moods. People with bipolar disorder have moods and feelings that are more extreme than normal ups and downs. Frameworks resources are intended for educational purposes only and are intended for health care professionals and/or payer representatives who may choose…

Supporting Organization Resources

PsychU Supporting Organization: An Interview With Potomac Psychiatry

PsychU Supporting Organization: An Interview With Potomac Psychiatry

In this interview, Dennis Sholler chats with Drs. Bruce Alan Kehr, Rene Stokes, Chuck Ng, and Julie Wendt about their work at Potomac Psychiatry, a new PsychU supporting organization. Potomac Psychiatry does “whatever it takes” to help patients feel well and recover their health. Their clinicians understand that no two…
988: What’s the scoop? A Discussion With Experts In Suicide Prevention & Mental Health

988: What’s the scoop? A Discussion With Experts In Suicide Prevention & Mental Health

988, the three-digit dialing code developed and designed as a suicide and crisis lifeline, went live on July 16, 2022. Since Congress designated 988 in 2020, there has been a lot of excitement, confusion, and buzz around exactly what this new number means for individuals in crisis, healthcare providers, and…

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Section Advisors

  • Kathy Day, MPA, BA, AA

    Patient & Caregiver Section Advisor

  • Dwayne Mayes, MS

    Patient & Caregiver Section Advisor

If you or someone you know is in a crisis, please contact the Suicide Prevention Hotline/Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or text the Crisis Text Line at 741-741.