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Greater Des Moines [email protected] Box 12174, Des Moines, Iowa 50312 (515) 277-0672 (voice mail) AFFILIATE AND SUPPORT GROUP NEWSLETTER “Support, Education, and Advocacy” Serving Polk, Dallas, Warren, and Madison counties July 2010 National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month www.nami.org/JOIN - Join NAMI with a single click of your mouse, become a member at the local, state, and national level. The 2010 NAMI National Convention will be held June 30-July 3 at the completely renovated Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. It's scheduled to end the day before Independence Day so you can join your NAMI family and tens of thousands of Americans in the incredible Fourth of July celebration in our Nation's Capitol, or get home in time to enjoy the celebration in your own home town. For more information, a convention schedule, hotel reservation information and a convention registration form, go to the http://www.nami.org/template.cfm?section=convention Our free Educational Meeting Our Business meeting is: Sunday, We will have a viewing of “When Medicine Got it Thursday, Business meeting at July 11 @ July 8, Broadlawn‘s Medical Center Wrong” – a documentary about NAMI's origins as a 3:30 PM Iowa Lutheran for a tour of the new Mental grassroots movement and founding as a national Health Emergency Dept – Hospital organization. Please see the article inside the newsletter. Board meeting will be held On Cafeteria th level Our meetings are open to the public. We would like to in the 4 floor Hunsaker Rooms A&B extend a special invitation to graduates of NAMI‖s ―Family to Room after the tour. Family program‖ to attend this event – a reunion to reconnect with friends. Sunday, The topic will be “Mental Illness – Your Civil Thursday, Business meeting at August 1 August 12 Eyerly-Ball Mental Health Rights, the ADA, and Discrimination 3:30 PM Center, 1301 Center St. Complaints”. Our guest speaker will be Tom Good from the Iowa Civil Rights Commission. Sunday, The meeting will be an “Ask the Doctor” session. Thursday, Business meeting at Sept. 12 Sept. 9 Eyerly-Ball Mental Health Our guest speaker will be Dr. Truce Ordona – psychiatrist at 3:30 PM Center, 1301 Center St. Eyerly Ball Community Mental Health Center. Thursday, Business meeting at Saturday, NAMI Walks at Des Moines Waterworks Park Oct. 14 Eyerly-Ball Mental Health Oct. 2 A 3 mile walk – anti-stigma and fundraising event 3:30 PM Center, 1301 Center St. Registration begins at 8:30 AM The walk begins at 10 AM – For more information to participate and/or donate, go to: http://www.nami.org/walkTemplate.cfm?Section=NAMIWAL KS&template=/customsource/NAMIWalks/WalksiteDetail.cf m&walksiteID=184 MENTAL ILLNESS: THE FACTS A heart attack is a symptom of serious heart disease, just as From NAMI: In Our Own Voice hearing voices, mood swings, withdrawal from social activities, or Mental illnesses are brain disorders. They are not defects in feeling out of control are common symptoms of a mental illness. someone‘s personality or a sign of poor moral character or lack Mental illnesses can affect people of any age, race, religion, of faith. They certainly do not mean that the ill person is a failure. education or income level. As you read this, five million people Chemical imbalances in the brain, from unknown or incompletely here in the United States are dealing with serious, chronic brain known causes, are much of the reason for symptoms of mental disorder. Major brain disorders include schizophrenia, bipolar illnesses. disorder (manic-depression), major depression, anxiety Mental illnesses are like other organ diseases in which body disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. chemistry changes. The abnormal chemistry of mental illnesses There are many points on the continuum of wellness, and affects brain function the same way that too little or too much of different degrees of recovery that can be reached with other body chemicals damage the heart, kidneys or liver. medication, therapy, and a strong support system. Our website is: www.nami.org/sites/NAMIGreaterDesMoines 1 See Yourself as a Person, Not an Illness The Mindfulness Group Please send a big THANK YOU to Cindy Gross and What is M.B.S.R.? M.B.S.R. is the acronym for Mindfulness Based Stress Plaza Printers for their assistance in printing our Reduction. It is a clinically proven preventive way to diminish newsletter - 6762 Douglas Avenue, Urbandale, Iowa 50322 stress in our daily lives. It is training in mindfulness meditation so 278-4695 www.plazaprinters.net persons can develop a self-regulatory approach to stress reduction and emotional management. Please send a big THANK YOU to Marilyn Fitzgerald Reasons why people start the Mindfulness Group and the group on Cummins Parkway for their assistance in Stress — job, family or financial assembling our monthly newsletter Chronic pain and illness Anxiety and panic Please help to support our organization by becoming a GI distress member of NAMI Greater Des Moines. Sleep disturbances Dues are: Send to: Jim Vandeberg Fatigue $35 – Individual/Family Treasurer, GDM High blood pressure $ 3 – Limited Income 4114 Allison Ave Headaches $50 – Professional Des Moines, Iowa Social anxiety 50310 Avoid depression relapse Please make the check payable to NAMI GDM. Benefits of the Mindfulness Group Dues cover local, state, and national membership. Release negative thought patterns Develop your own inner stress management Donations are also welcome. Be emotionally calmer Experience inner happiness Looking for Community Resources? Learn pain management and anxiety reduction skills Phone 211 www.211Iowa.org Cultivate kindness and compassion Contact Polk County Health Services The Mindfulness Group Sessions Involve th 218 6 Ave – 243-4545 Weekly - Brief discussions and lectures http://polk.ia.networkofcare.org/mh/home/index.cfm Group practice of stress reduction exercises Homework - Daily Stress Reduction Practices Go to the visiting nurses website www.vnsdm.org Minimum of 20 minutes per day click on ―links‖ – then click on Community Resource Directory Optional readings for weekly discussion Polk County Community Mental Health Centers It is important to develop the habit of daily practice. Daily Child Guidance Center – 808 5th Ave – 244-2267 practice is more effective than length of practice. Eyerly Ball Community MH Center 1301 Center St. – 243-5181 Mindfullness Training Broadlawns Medical Center- 1801 Hickman Road – 282-6770 th Where: Eyerly Ball Clinic Behavioral Health Resources – 945 19 St – 241-0982 When: Tuesday evenings from 7-8 pm Dallas County Mental Health Center Who: Open to all members of the local community not just West Central Community Mental Health Center clients of the clinic 2111 Green, Adel – 515-993-4535 Facilitator: Glenn Hobin, MA Madison County Mental Health Center How to Enroll: Please call the clinic and ask to register for the Bridge Counseling Center Mindfulness class, 515-243-5181 300 West Hutchings St. – 515-462-3105 Session Cost: Free Primary Health Care & Behavioral Health Material Cost: $30.00 for CD‘s th Engebretsen Clinic, 2353 SE 14 St. – 248-1400 The Outreach Project, 1200 University, Suite 105 – 248-1500 NAMI Greater Des Moines Board of Directors th East Side Center, 3509 East 29 St. – 248-1600 Effective January 1, 2010 Primary Health Care Pharmacy, 1200 University, Suite 103 – President and Editor of Newsletter 262-0854 Teresa Bomhoff 274-6876 E-mail: [email protected] Letters to the Editor Vice-President Jim Goodrich 288-1149 You are welcome to send letters to the editor by mail or E-mail. E-mail: [email protected] If you receive our newsletter by e-mail and would rather receive it Treasurer – Jim Vandeberg 360-1529 by snail mail – or if you receive our newsletter by snail mail and E-mail: [email protected] would rather receive it by e-mail – communicate your preference to: Teresa Bomhoff, Box 12174, Des Moines, Iowa 50312 or E- Secretary – Cece Arnold 276-7871 E-mail: [email protected] mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Board members NAMI Greater Des Moines 515-277-0672 – the local affiliate Grace Sivadge [email protected] 961-6671 www.nami.org/sites/NAMIGreaterDesMoines Kathy Hoegh 255-7907 NAMI Iowa Office 254-0417 or toll free 1-800-417-0417 M-F 9-4 Kay Kopatich [email protected] 240-4904 www.namiiowa.org – the state affiliate Christopher Oswalt [email protected] NAMI National www.nami.org Erin McNamara [email protected] Help Line 1-800-950-6264 Mon-Fri 10 AM-6 PM EST Glenn Hobin [email protected] 965-9799 Each level of the organization is a separate 501(c) (3). Sharon Johnson [email protected] 277-7811 Our website is: www.nami.org/sites/NAMIGreaterDesMoines 2 See Yourself as a Person, Not an Illness New dads hit by depression as often as moms Please join us at our Sunday, July 11 meeting- to see: By Liz Szabo, USA Today When Medicine Got It Wrong Just as many new fathers as mothers develop In the 1960s and ‗70s, many psychiatrists and postpartum depression, and about one in 10 medical school textbooks perpetuated the myth of parents have the condition, a new study says. the ―schizophrenogenic mother,‖ in which a Both women and their doctors have become more aware of the mother‘s personality was viewed as the source of risks of postpartum depression, as well as the benefits of early ―bad parenting‖ and the cause of mental illness, specifically diagnosis and treatment. There has been much less research on schizophrenia. how men cope with the stress of fatherhood, even though the mental health of both parents is crucial to the well being of their Never mind that one son or daughter in the same family might children, says study author James Paulson, a child psychologist develop the illness, while brothers and sisters would grow up to be fine.