{"id":15995,"date":"2024-02-08T08:27:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/cecmh\/?page_id=15995"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:01:18","slug":"our-voices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/cecmh\/our-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Voices is a mental health blog like no other. Each post is written by individuals with serious mental illnesses, recovering from mental illnesses, or touched by mental illnesses in some way. Their words are fueled by their own experiences of discovery, struggle, hope, and recovery, and their goal is to impart their knowledge to anyone going through the same experience.<\/p>\n

The name of this blog pays tribute to the 2008 book written by CECMH patients: Our Voices: First-Person Accounts of Schizophrenia<\/a><\/p>\n

Want to share your story? Scroll to the bottom of this page for more details on becoming an Our Voices contributor.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Merritt Ryan | STEP Patient<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Schizophrenia<\/h5>\n

Sarah is an accomplished writer<\/a>, public speaker and support group facilitator for National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) as well as a blog contributor for Psychology Today<\/a>. She is a survivor of schizophrenia, and she is now a wife, mother and owner of two rescues.<\/p>\n<\/som-cell>\n

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Become an Our Voices Contributor<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Our Voices is a mental health care affirmation blog with content created by past\/current patients, peer-support specialists and family members\/friends of patients.<\/p>\n

Process:<\/strong> For a blog submission to be considered, the following must be followed.<\/p>\n

Step 1: Complete the Authorization Form<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Contributors<\/strong> must complete this form: 739s Authorization to Use or Disclose Protected Health Information (PHI) for Education, Fundraising or Marketing Public Relations.\n