Mental Health

With many affected in some way by Alzheimer’s disease, walkers gathered Sunday afternoon to walk at Hidden Lake Park in Merrillville to support each other and to raise money for research that will hopefully help to end the disease. “This is an...

The prevalence of suicide and its local impact were brought home to Michigan City the week of Sept. 9, as Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Michigan City observed National Suicide Week Prevention Week with a number of daily programs, among them the...

Please join our panel of experts for a discussion of prescription drug abuse, substance abuse, suicide, and unintentional suicide on Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 6 pm. This discussion will be held at the City of Michigan City Emergency Operations...

Porter-Starke Services will host Dan Gediman, Executive Producer of the international radio, web and book series, This I Believe for a free-community wide event at Valparaiso University’s Center for the Arts on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 from...

On the first Wednesday of the month from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., caregivers will meet for the Alzheimer’s Association’s support group. The next meeting will be held April 3, followed by May 1. Facilitated by a trained leader, the group meets at...

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI Porter County) will sponsor the NAMI Family to Family Education Program specifically for families of a person diagnosed with a serious mental illness. The 12-session series of classes will start in Portage on...

People write me every day and they put themselves down!!! I don’t like it. How does someone expect to develop high self esteem if they repeat negative phrases about themselves and their abilities? This has to stop…FIRST in our Self Esteem 101...

Don’t be afraid to set an example to your co-workers, friends, spouses or children by just being yourself rather than trying to be perfect. In the larger picture, everything does not have to be perfect in order to be effective. We have all lost our...

My husband and I recently bought a new bed after deciding that the monstrous headboard, complete with shelves and drawers, was taking over most of our small-to-mid-size bedroom and just not working for us anymore. Also, hopefully in about two weeks,...