Mental Health America has created a completely new Dialogue for Recovery website for consumers and family members. Dialogue for Recovery is a Mental Health America program aimed at educating consumers about prevalent mental health conditions, treatment options and quality of life issues affecting their recovery. It brings together in one place the messages people need to hear and the things they need to know to take the journey to recovery from mental illness.

Recovering from mental illness includes not only getting better, but achieving a full and satisfying life. "People with mental health conditions today can look forward to getting effective treatment, finding support and recovering full and meaningful lives," said Dr. David Shern, president and CEO of Mental Health America.

Dialogue for Recovery teaches partnership between consumers and mental health professionals. Getting to a diagnosis, exploring treatment options and getting effective help all require good two-way communication between consumers and professionals. The website has practical suggestions on how to find and select mental health providers, questions to ask, and how to make dialogue happen.

The website is full of proactive steps that people with mental health conditions can take to further their treatment, support and recovery. Those steps start with tools for recovery to make the process easier. They continue with many ideas for self-care, from relaxation and adequate sleep to building strong connections with others. And the site is unique in bringing together practical advice and ideas of many aspects of living that mental illness affects. These include relationships, parenting, spirituality, education, housing, money management and employment.

Dialogue for My Recovery: Will Launch This Fall

Mental Health America this fall will launch Dialogue for My Recovery—a cutting edge application that will offer consumers living with depression or recovering from the effects of trauma a six-week online interactive experience to empower them to chart a personalized path to recovery.  The course will offer daily 5-6 minute lessons which will educate the user about their condition, simple tools to aid recovery and build resiliency, and opportunities to learn more or to contact a professional for help.  As subscribers move through the experience, they build a personalized dashboard of tools that are most effective for them.  Mental Health America is partnering with bLife, an innovative new company with extensive expertise in the use of web applications to empower individual behavioral change using positive psychology, to create Dialogue for My Recovery.  Mental Health America plans to launch a national marketing campaign in the fall, which will advise consumers on how to subscribe. ::