BREAKDOWN: Investigating San Diego County’s Mental Health Care Crisis
In 2019, NBC 7 began investigating how and why the mental health care system in San Diego County was failing people. The investigation started when we learned that librarians at the Central Library in downtown San Diego were doing way more work related to the mental health care of their patrons than anything related to…
Read MoreRecovery International: Taming her Anxiety
After taming her anxiety. she helps others help themselves.
Read MoreSpot on Teen Program
Like adults, teens face daily frustrations that can cause anxiety, anger, and depression.
Read MoreBetter Mental Health at Work
A new online program has been introduced to help people improve workplace attitudes and collaboration. The program, title “Spot It”
Read MoreArchives Donation to University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Abraham Low Special Collection
Eighty years ago, the state-of-the-art treatment for mental illness was electric shock treatment. Cold water immersion, insulin shock and lobotomies were other remedies for those with recurrent “nervous” disorders. The stigma of mental illness was compounded in states like Illinois, where one received a court record when released from a state hospital. In 1937 Dr.…
Read MoreBETTER. MENTAL. HEALTH. AT WORK
In celebration of Mental Health Awareness Month, DillonMarcus is launching a ground-breaking online program to help employees improve workplace attitudes and collaboration. The program, titled “Spot-It™: Breaking Free From Stress, Worry, and Anxiety”, teaches a time-tested self-help system used by Recovery International (RI), a non-profit dedicated to helping people achieve better mental health. The Spot-It™…
Read MoreBetter. Mental. Health. Nature Journal
A new joint project of The Conservation Foundation and Recovery International combines cognitive-behavioral mental health tools with images of nature from northern Illinois parks. Find relief during these stressful times with a walk in the woods, thoughtful and calming tools, and journaling or doodling! Released in time for May, Mental Health Awareness Month, the 88-page…
Read MoreNew Anti-Stress Program Serves Youth
New Anti-Stress Program Serves Youth Power Your Mind: Tools to Build Resilience, a new workbook that uses graphic novel panels to illustrate stressful situations and healthy ways of coping, has been released by Recovery International (RI) to help children, teens, and emerging adults deal with feelings of anxiety, anger, or depression. “Being a teenager can…
Read MoreHarmony Quotes
Harmony Women’s Recovery Program, San Diego (December, 2016) Harmony serves single and parenting women who have substance use disorders. I’m grateful to Recovery International for: It has helped me with my anger by not wanting to explode. Spotting helps me calm down. I like how RI’s main focus is on mental health! I love the…
Read More80th Year Celebration
Recovery International Celebrates 80th Year Recovery International—the “granddaddy” of non-profit mental health self-help groups—is celebrating its 80th anniversary with a year-long series of local, regional and national activities. Often imitated, we are the original. Initially founded as The Association of Former Mental Patients and Their Relatives in 1937, it soon changed its name to…
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