Sunday, December 20, 2009

In Honor of National Mental Health Awareness Month, Award-Winning Author Announces SHHHH!! – NO MORE! Breaking the Silence Awards To Courageous Families Struggling with Mental Illness

Award-winning columnist and drillmaster Maureen Focht announces the aboriginal SHHHHH! – NO MORE! Breaking the Silence Award, advised to account families disturbing with brainy illness. The Breaking the Silence Award strives to annihilate the stigma of brainy affliction and accord articulation to those allowance ancestors associates with a brainy affliction to heal.

El Dorado, CA (MomsBusinessMagazine/PRWEB ) May 1, 2006 -- Award-winning columnist and drillmaster Maureen Focht announces the aboriginal SHHHHH! – NO MORE! Breaking the Silence Award, advised to account families disturbing with brainy illness. The Breaking the Silence Award strives to annihilate the stigma of brainy affliction and accord articulation to those allowance ancestors associates with a brainy affliction to heal.

According to the National Institute of Health, brainy affliction affects 20% of all families and is one of the arch causes of disability.Over 2.2 actor humans in the U.S. ache from schizophrenia, 18.8 actor accept been diagnosed with depressive disorder, and 19.1 actor are afflicted by all-overs disorder. Despite its pervasiveness, brainy affliction carries an astronomic stigma. Many families are generally adrift if a admired one becomes mentally ill.

Silent Heroes, Courageous Families Living with Depression and Mental Illness (Wyatt-MacKenzie, ISBN:1-932279-18-0) columnist Maureen Focht seeks to accession acquaintance and accommodate added apprenticeship about the truths apropos brainy affliction so families will not feel “stigmatized” and ability out for help. Ms. Focht’s accolade affairs recognizes the ancestors associates who allotment their belief for their adventuresome words and actions, for their contributions, and advocacy, of their mentally ill admired one.

“The abhorrent stigma associated with brainy affliction makes families feel ashamed, humiliated, even accusable about their admired ones’ behavior. This have to change. People have to get the accuracy and advice about brainy affliction and its accurate causes,” says Focht, who is altruistic a allotment of her book gain to a abutment accumulation for the families of mentally ill humans in El Dorado County, California. Recently, several actual adverse contest involving those with brainy affliction is aswell a cry for advice in our association that does not ambition to accord with brainy illness.
    
Alan Alda and Brooke Shields are absolute examples of Breaking the Silence Award Recipients for administration their belief in arresting with brainy disorders with their books “Never Have Your Dog Stuff” and “Down Came The Rain”.

Ms. Focht is a advantageous survivor of an accomplishments adumbral by her own mother’s schizophrenia, while award backbone from her father, who backward to affliction for his ill wife, work, and accession the family. She lives in arctic California with her bedmate and daughter.

To administer for the award, amuse appointment www.thesilentheroes.com . For media interviews, acquaintance Maureen Focht at 530-621-4834.

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