Help for Youth Struggling with Their Mental Health

May is Mental Health Awareness Month established in 1949 to reduce stigma through education, advocate for better policies, encourage people to seek help when needed and promote mental wellness and prevention strategies.

Although schizophrenia only affects one percent of the population, the impact of the disease can upend the lives of people experiencing psychosis. As described in her memoir, Elyn R. Saks wrote about the condition: “The center cannot hold. The ‘me’ becomes a haze and the solid center from which one experiences reality breaks up like a bad radio signal.”