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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, or NAMI, Alger/Marquette.
Classes will be from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesdays from Feb. 12 through April 30 at 129 W. Baraga Ave. in Marquette. The 12-week series of classes is free and confidential.
The course will cover a range of topics, including information about 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 14th time this class has been offered and is presented by trained educators. To date, more than 250,000 family members in 48 states have completed the course.
The course is designed 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 have no control over their actions.
Responses from previous family members who took the class are: "I feel the course has saved my family," "I no longer blame myself for my child's illness," and "This course has given me a broader understanding of the diagnosis and more comfort in speaking about this to others."
Those planning to participate should call to register by Feb. 1; however, new class members will be accepted until Feb. 11.
For more information or to register, contact Louise Wilcox at 906-235-0231 or Cindy Bertucci at 906-360-7107.