Do
you know someone with a mental illness? Chances are you do, even if you aren’t
aware of it. After all, mental illness impacts the lives of one out of four
adults and one out of 10 children. But it’s a disease that people don’t
want to admit they have, and one that friends and family members may be
reluctant to discuss.
Too
many people assume that mental illness is due to a character flaw or personal
weakness. They think that sufferers should just “snap out of it.” No one would
ever dream of saying that to someone afflicted with cancer. But most people
don’t understand mental illness. And that’s really too bad, because a lack
of understanding and the shame mental illness brings can prevent the people who
need help from getting it — and getting better.
There
is a lot of hope for people with mental illness — with treatment they do
recover, and they can lead happy, productive lives. So let’s end the
stigma, talk openly, and support people who suffer from mental illness.
Please
join us as we support the National Alliance for Mental Illness and the 2013
NAMIWalk with John Lovelace as Walk Chair! To join the UPMC Insurance
Services Super Team (includes Community Care Behavioral Health Organization and
UPMC Health Plan teams) on Sunday,
October 13, at the SouthSide Works, just click here.
Anyone
who registers for the UPMC Insurance Services Super Team receives a dri-fit
T-shirt and a $50 deductible credit toward their MyHealth requirements. The first 50 people who register get a
$20 donation from John Lovelace! And if you raise money for NAMI,
you can get even more incentives!
- Raise $25: receive baseball hat
- Raise $50: receive baseball hat, water bottle, and four Zoo tickets
- INCENTIVE: Raise $50 by September 9 and get entered
into a drawing to win one of five sets of four Pirates tickets to the
September 17 game!
- Raise $100: receive baseball hat, water bottle, four
Zoo tickets, and embroidered sweatshirt
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