NAMI 101
The year NAMI was founded.
What is 1979?
The year National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month was announced.
What is 2008?
The most common mental illness people face.
What is anxiety disorder?
The ratio of U.S. adults who experience mental illness each year.
What is 1 in 5?
Olympic swimmer living with ADHD.
Who is Michael Phelps?
The number of NAMI Signature Programs.
What is 11?
Number of African Americans living with Mental Illness.
What is 6.8 million?
The second leading cause of death among people aged 10-34.
What is suicide?
In the 17th century people, women especially, were considered this if they displayed symptoms of mental illness.
What are witches or demonic possession?
This Rapper & Pulitzer Prize winner opened up about depression.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
The number of NAMI-BYS Affiliates.
What is 24?
The institution where most mental health treatment takes place, particularly for BIPOC.
What are prisons?
This mental health condition involves persistent, intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors that a person feels driven to perform.
What is Obsessive Compulsive-Disorder?
Unethical experiment meant to measure an individual's willingness to obey an authority figure.
What is the Milgram experiment?
NBA legend Mental Health Advocate & NAMI-NYS Supporter.
Who is Metta World Peace?
NAMI Home Office Location.
What is Virginia?
Minority Mental Health Awareness Month was named after this person who is a author, journalist, teacher, and mental health advocate.
Who is Bebe Moore Campbell?
People with depression have a 40% higher risk of developing these diseases than the general population.
What are cardiovascular and metabolic diseases?
The term that is used to describe when people living with mental health conditions were moved out of asylums and mental hospitals to federally funded community mental health centers.
What is deinstitutionalization?
SNL star is living with personality disorder.
Who is Pete Davidson?
Off the mask is this.
What is NAMI-NYS Fundraising & Awareness Event?
The combined effect of racist beliefs about BIPOC in the mental health field and the centering of whiteness in research.
What is misdiagnosed and underdiagnosed?
This mental health condition causes dramatic shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to think clearly.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This occurs when people internalize public attitudes and prejudices toward mental illness and put them on themselves.
What is self-stigma?
During Mental Health Awareness Month, this celebrity spoke with NAMI CEO.
Who is Selena Gomez?