NAMI Mid-Carolina

MUSC partners with Charleston schools for telehealth clinics

March 14, 2019

Scarlette Ordonez and Behold Shockley, first-graders at Sanders Clyde Elementary School, have visited their school nurse, Allison Wukovits using the telemedicine network. (Photo/provided) Charleston County School District has partnered with the Medical University of South Carolina to expand school-based health offerings through telehealth clinics. MUSC Health operates its School-Based Health Program in 23 schools across the district so students can more »

Now without oversight, new standards coming to South Carolina addiction recovery housing

After years of shooting meth and heroin, Charlotte native Kyle Baucom knew he would end up in prison — or dead. He wanted a way out, so he sought help from a Greenville substance abuse recovery home. Then another one. Then another one. None of them proved helpful, the 31-year-old said. Each place where he more »

Advancing Discovery For New, Better Treatments

NAMI is proud to share our new white paper: “Working Together to Advance Discovery and Reignite Hope: Advocacy, Academia, Industry and Government Push for New Mental Health Treatment Options.” This paper describes the important work NAMI and our partners have done to push forward in the difficult and complex field of brain science and developing treatment more »

Maintaining Healthy Friendships With Mental Illness

Quality friendships have the potential to give us feelings of compassion, belonging and happiness. They can help improve our sense of self-worth and help us cope. When you have a mental illness, you may think that your friendships are bound to be more complicated. You may even deem healthy relationships impossible. But it’s very important to dispel more »

How The Digital Age Has Impacted Mental Health Care

February 26, 2019

By Laura Greenstein | Feb. 04, 2019 Almost the entirety of my experience in seeking mental health care (apart from the actual therapy) has been online. I looked for a therapist using different “find a therapist” search engines, clicking filters that would account for my insurance and location. I’ve read blogs and personal accounts of others’ experiences with more »