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NAMI offers ‘Family To Family’ series

MARQUETTE — Family members of individuals diagnosed with a mental illness may greatly benefit from a 12-week “Family to Family” education course to be offered by National Alliance on Mental Illness of Alger/Marquette.

The 12-week series of classes is free and will be 6 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern time Tuesdays starting next week through May 1, at 129 W. Baraga Ave. in Marquette.

The course will cover a range of topics, including schizophrenia, mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and major depression, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

This will be the 13th time this class has been offered in the area and is presented by trained educators. To date, more than 150,000 family members in 48 states across the country have completed the course.

The course is designed specifically for parents, siblings, spouses, teenage and adult children, significant others and friends of people with a mental illness. This course also helps people understand this is an illness and not something they can just “deal with it, shape up,” as most times they just have no control over their actions.

Responses from previous family members who took the class are: “I feel the course has saved my family,”With the tragedies of well-known public figures dealing with depression, this is a timely class for families to learn more about the types of mental illnesses.

Those interested should call to register for the classes by Friday; however, new class members will be accepted until Feb. 26.

For further information or to register, contact Louise Wilcox at 906-235-0231 or Cindy Bertucci at 906-360-7107.

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