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NAMI COBB
NAMI Cobb
2018 Leadership Team
President - Shevander Dykes [email protected] 1st Vice President/ Communications - Greg Ausham [email protected] Secretary – Donna Hook [email protected]
Treasurer – Jamie Welch [email protected]
Advocacy Chair—Vacant CIT/Newsletter Editor – John Avery [email protected]
Website Management Chair: Tim Link / Allen Spetnagel [email protected]
Outreach - Vacant Education Chair— Melissa Pike [email protected] Programs Chair—Neill Blake [email protected] Hospitality Chair – Debra Howard [email protected]
Directors
Debra Howard
Tiffany Welch
Neill Blake
Website: www.namicobb.org
Email: [email protected]
Mailing address:
NAMI-Cobb
P.O. Box 999
Kennesaw, GA 30156
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E
1 Monthly Meeting
2 Education Speaker – Jaketra Bryant
3 President’s Message
4 NAMI Cobb Reaffiliation Announcement
5 NAMI Cobb News
6 Outism
7 Magnesium Deficiency & Mental Health
8 New evidence suggests schizophrenia begins during
pregnancy
10 Atlanta Out Of the Darkness- Suicide Prevention Walk
11 Meeting and Membership Information
Newsletter Date
Volume 1 Issue 1 OCTOBER 2018 FRESH START
Next Educational Meeting 0n October 18, 2018
Education Speaker Series Presents:
Jaketra Bryant Tough It Out, Not Talk It Out: Cultural Issues
with Seeking Mental Health.
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There will be a brief membership meeting and vote taken to reaffilliate with NAMI Georgia as a
model B at the beginning of the meeting.
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Education Speaker Series Presents:
Jaketra Bryant Tough It Out, Not Talk It Out: Cultural Issues with Seeking Mental Health.
JAKETRA BRYANT is a licensed professional counselor and relationship expert in Georgia and surrounding areas. She graduated with her MA from Argosy University and completed her clinical internship at the Willow Brooke at Tanner Behavioral Health partial hospitalization. Jaketra later continued her clinical practice in state prisons and local jails providing mental health services to maximal security men and women and community work within the justice system looking at the breakage of families due to mental health. Her work continued in local communities serving those families and individuals with little to no income and individuals who plead not guilty until opening her own business.
This event is a FREE community service; all are welcome! October 18, 2018 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Turner Chapel AME Church - Room 187 492 N. Marietta Parkway Marietta 30060
There will be a brief membership meeting and vote taken to reaffilliate with NAMI
Georgia as a model B at the beginning of the meeting.
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President’s Message:
October is Mental Health Awareness Month, and World Mental Health Day is October 10, 2018. (Insert GA. Tech Information) It is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As we embark on the last quarter of this year, it is imperative that we celebrate our Champions of Mental Health and Recovery. The work we have completed in our communities speaks volumes and reminds us that there is still much more for us to do individually and collectively as an affiliate. Thank you all for your commitments to our organization.
Our next Educational Meeting will take place on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. at Turner Chapel AME Church in Marietta. Our special guest speaker is an asset to Cobb-Douglas Community Service Board; she is Teresa Lane, Registered Nurse. The importance of medication compliance, side effects, and contraindications will be shared. During this meeting, we will openly discuss re-affiliation progress and plan of action for NAMI Cobb. October has been designated as Douglas County Behavioral Health Month. The 2018 Douglas County Behavioral Health Forum presents “A Community Conversation about Mental Health and Substance Abuse,” which is scheduled for Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Douglasville Conference Center. It is located at 6700 Church Street in Douglasville. We are now on Twitter and Instagram! Check us out soon to stay in the know with NAMI Cobb! (Include handles from Melissa) Regards, Shevander Dykes
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To All Active Members of NAMI Cobb:
Over the past few years, NAMI affiliates have been engaged in an effort called re-affiliation. This is a process for ensuring
that NAMI Cobb, as well as the other affiliates across the country, have the required documentation and are operating in
accordance with NAMI and non-profit requirements.
Last spring, as part of our re-affiliation effort, our members voted for NAMI Cobb to become a 501(c)(3) corporation
operating as NAMI Cobb, Inc. This meant that NAMI Cobb would become a charitable organization and would be eligible
to receive tax-deductible contributions. Under re-affiliation, our relationship with NAMI Georgia would have been as a
Model A incorporated affiliate.
In order to meet our re-affiliation deadline, the Board of Directors of NAMI Cobb, Inc. has decided to proceed with re-
affiliation as a subsidiary of NAMI Georgia (Model B) rather than as a Model A non-profit corporation. This means that
we must dissolve our NAMI Cobb, Inc. 501(c)(3) corporation. NAMI Cobb would still provide support groups and
education as in the past. Only our corporate status and relationship with NAMI Georgia would change. In the future,
NAMI Cobb could once again become a 501(c)(3) if so desired.
We are required to call a meeting of the members to discuss this, answer any questions from the membership, and have a
membership vote to approve re-affiliation as a NAMI Model B affiliate, as well as the dissolution of the corporation. This
meeting will take place as follows:
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Turner Chapel AME Cathedral, Room 187
492 North Marietta Parkway NE
Marietta, GA 30060
Doors open at 7:00 pm. The meeting itself commences at 7:15 pm.
Robert Gray, who is an active member and former NAMI Georgia Affiliate Coordinator, will be working with us. Please
contact Robert at [email protected] if you have any questions. We will be sending you more specific information prior
to the meeting.
We hope you will make every effort to make it to this important meeting. A quorum of active members is required for the
vote so your attendance is crucial in order to complete re-affiliation before December and retain our status as a NAMI
affiliate.
Sincerely,
Shevander Dykes
President, NAMI Cobb
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Dear Mom & Dad, This Is Why I Can't Stand You. May 1, 2018 |
Chloe Estelle
Dear Mom and Dad, Never once in my life have I ever thought that my mom or my dad was the bad guy. You guys have always been my mom and dad, not the enemy. So, I'm imagining the days that I came home from school. Throughout the day, the world reinforced these ideas that “I am not capable.” All day I had to stifle these emotions and be in a loud sensory filled environment. My breaks were not breaks. I didn’t get to curl up for a few minutes in my safe space. Instead I had to walk among 100 other kids who were all yelling over each other and pushing each other about. So I come home exhausted and overwhelmed to a mom or a dad that I know believes I am capable. To a parent who will never leave no matter what I do, unlike my so called friends at school. I know that I can let all my anger and frustration out on my parents and everything is going to be okay when I’m done. In the strangest way, I yell and scream and call my parents names out of love. I kick and punch at my parents in the way that I wish I could kick and scream at my teachers and my principal and the bullies at school. I take my anger and frustration and fears out on my parents. Now, I don’t know in the moment that’s what I’m doing. I feel this strong urge to get my emotions out anyway that I can. It feels good to scream and kick and punch. Afterwards, when you come and ask me what you did wrong- I’ll say “I don’t know.” Because you did nothing wrong. The reason that I blame you is because you do everything right. I can’t blame anyone else, not to their face. If I do, I don’t trust that they will still be there when I’m done screaming and kicking and punching. Now, I know in these moment you are going to forget that I told you I do this out of love and it won’t make any sense. I know it’s still wrong to do this. I feel guilty afterwards every time, but I also don’t know how to cope. But I will learn. You will teach me how. Looking back, I understand all of this. In the moment, I don’t understand any of what I’m doing. Hopefully you will. With Love, Your Child Written by Chloe Estelle https://www.ourtism.com/single-post/2016/05/08/Finding-support-and-help-how-your-community-can-make-a-difference OurTism works with individuals, families, and professionals to help people with Asperger profiles build meaningful connected lives.e e here to l; provills and tools to build purposeful, meaningful and harmonious lives for Asperger profile adults (18+) and their families.
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Magnesium Deficiency & Mental Health by Markham Integrative | Feb 28, 2018
Magnesium is an essential mineral for the brain and for our bodies in general, required for several hundred
metabolic processes, but by some estimates up to 80% of us are deficient, making magnesium deficiency one of
the most common vitamin & mineral deficiencies in North America.
Many forces of the modern world combine to make this happen. Increased use of pesticides and fertilizers affect
the amount of magnesium that plants are able to absorb from the soil; we, in turn, get less from our intake of
these plants. Magnesium is removed from water during municipal treatments, and magnesium is lost during
food processing. The widespread shift from whole grains to white bread, for example, is a major contributor to
the problem.
What we do manage to take in is depleted when we consume caffeine, alcohol, salt, soda, antacids, and
diuretics. And chronic stress, an unfortunate ubiquity of our time, causes us to lose a great deal of magnesium in
the urine.
We blogged last year about how some experts have found ADHD and magnesium to be so closely linked
that what is diagnosed as ADHD is sometimes, actually, magnesium deficiency. Unsurprisingly, this
mineral’s connection to mental health doesn’t end there.
Over the last several decades as magnesium intake has been steadily declining, depression and anxiety have
been rising in prevalence. The knowledge of a connection between magnesium and depression goes back about
a century, and published case studies have described dramatic recoveries from clinical depression with daily
supplementation (1). A 2008 study found magnesium to be as effective as tricyclic antidepressants for treating
depression in diabetic patients (2).
Several animal studies have shown antidepressant effects of magnesium. Anxiety can be induced in mice by
depriving them of magnesium (3), and magnesium supplementation after traumatic brain injury has been found
to protect animals against subsequent anxiety and depression (4).
A recent clinical trial of 126 patients with depression saw scores reduced by an average of 6 points with
supplementation of 2000 mg of magnesium daily, bringing the mean of the group from moderate depression to
mild or minimal depression (5). Patients also reported improvements in other areas where magnesium is known
to be effective including anxiety, headaches, muscle cramps, and constipation during supplementation.
The precise mechanism that makes magnesium so effective for depression is not yet known due to a relative
lack of in-depth research (unfortunate given the prevalence and enormous cost of depression and magnesium’s
potential as a safe, inexpensive treatment), but it is likely that many factors are at play. Magnesium is necessary
for almost every part of our stress response, and has a role to play in just about every biological mechanism for
depression.
One important job that magnesium has is guarding something called the NMDA receptor so as not to let
calcium and glutamate over-activate it. Think of it like pushing a button. Calcium and glutamate are
“excitatory” neurotransmitters (chemical messengers), which is exactly what it sounds like. Although both
essential in moderation, without magnesium there to keep a watchful eye on them, calcium and glutamate will
just keep on pushing the button, which can eventually damage our neurons.
Similarly, magnesium stimulates receptors for GABA, an inhibitory neurotransmitter. This helps us relax and
give our overactive minds a rest, and it can help with sleeplessness.
Magnesium also restricts the activity of stress hormones such as cortisol (which in excess leads to anxiety,
depression, brain fog, and the list goes on). Magnesium restricts its release and regulates its ability to enter the
brain.
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Both magnesium deficiency and depression are associated with systemic inflammation, which is reduced with
supplementation. And magnesium boosts serotonin, well-known for its positive effect on our moods.
Signs of magnesium deficiency can include difficulty sleeping, anxiety, irritability, brain fog, and muscle
cramps. Tight muscles actually trigger a stress response in the body, releasing cortisol (the stress hormone
mentioned above) and other hormones. Magnesium allows our muscles to relax, which in turn improves this
stress problem.
Women of reproductive age have an additional reason to pay attention to magnesium levels. To begin with,
magnesium can be very effective in reducing PMS symptoms including cramps, migraines, and irritability. If
you experience these symptoms and they improve with magnesium supplementation, chances are you are
(surprise!) at least moderately deficient. Heavy periods can also deplete your levels of the mineral. If any of this
sounds like you and you become pregnant, pay even more attention. Research has shown that approximately
70% of women enter pregnancy already deficient in magnesium (6). If not addressed, this may have an impact
on your likelihood to suffer from postpartum depression (7).
Improvements are generally noticed quickly with magnesium supplementation (often within 1-2 weeks), and
tend to fall away quickly when supplementation ends. This makes sense when we think about the common
reasons for deficiency. If our diet, our environment, and our levels of stress haven’t drastically changed, neither
will our likelihood to be low in this critical mineral without supplementing. Although these changes may not
make up the difference, we can increase our dietary intake of magnesium by eating more dark leafy vegetables,
whole grains, legumes, almonds, cashews, and some types of fish. Choosing organic foods helps too, and as
much as possible, reducing stress in our lives.
https://integrative-medicine.ca/magnesium-deficiency-mental-health/
New evidence suggests schizophrenia begins during pregnancy
David Nield, Science Alert Dec. 2, 2017, 12:00 PM
• Researchers believe schizophrenia could originate during the first trimester, giving hope it could
be treated before birth.
• Scientists are now growing "mini brains" to identify complications in brain growth during the
first twelve weeks of pregnancy.
• They believe the problem lies with the amount of misdirected neurons in the cortex.
A new study has found that schizophrenia could originate as early as the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, which
means we might be able to eventually treat it in utero before birth.
By growing "mini brains" in lab conditions, scientists have been able to identify disruptions in stem cells
surrounding the ventricles, or brain cavities, as early as two weeks into the growth – the equivalent of the first
trimester of pregnancy.
According to the team of researchers, this is a major step forward in understanding the biological origins of the
brain disorder, which was first described in an ancient Egyptian medical text called the Ebers Papyrus back in
1550 BCE.
"This disease has been mischaracterized for 4,000 years," says one of the researchers, Michal K. Stachowiak
from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
"We finally now have evidence that schizophrenia is a disorder that results from a fundamental alteration in the
formation and structure of the brain."
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The team grew what are known as cerebral organoids, miniature organs resembling the brain, using
reprogrammed skin cells from three people with schizophrenia and four people without that were acting as a
control group.
Fed with the right nutrients, acids, and glucose, these mini brains can grow to create neuroectoderm, the tissue
that forms our brains. Eventually, brain ventricles, a cortex, and a region similar to the brain stem appear.
"The goal was to, in a sense, recapitulate important stages in brain formation that take place in the womb," says
Stachowiak.
As the tiny brain models began to take shape, the scientists noticed abnormalities in the organoids developed
from patients with schizophrenia: the neural progenitor cells that go on to form neurons weren't properly
distributed, and very few mature neurons ended up appearing in the cortex.
That matches previous research in which schizophrenia has been linked to a breakdown in the functioning of
the cortex, where the brain handles important stuff like memory, attention, and language processing.
"Our research shows that the disease likely starts during the first trimester and involves accelerated cell
divisions, excessive migration and premature differentiation of the neuroectodermal cells into neurons," says
Stachowiak.
"Neurons that connect different regions of the cortex, the so-called interneurons, become misdirected in the
schizophrenia cortex, causing cortical regions to be misconnected, like an improperly wired computer."
Now that we've spotted this faulty wiring at such an early stage of the brain's development, the next step is to
work out ways it could be treated. A faulty genomic pathway called the Integrative Nuclear FGFR 1 Signaling
(INFS) pathway, the subject of earlier research, could hold the key.
Maybe drugs or dietary supplements could be given to pregnant women where a risk of schizophrenia has been
identified, suggest the researchers, though for now it's very early days for working out how to make use of this
new data.
The differences observed at different points in the first trimester.E.K Stachowiak/Translational Psychiatry
Symptoms of schizophrenia usually appear in adolescence or young adulthood, and the disorder is estimated to
affect more than 21 million people worldwide, causing severe problems with thought processes, perception, and
a sense of self.
While the condition can be managed with drugs, there's no cure: but researchers continue to learn more
about the genetic roots of the disorder and exactly how it messes with the wiring inside the brain. Now we have
more information about just when it starts, too.
"We now can state that schizophrenia is a disorder of faulty brain construction that occurs early in development,
corresponding to the first trimester, and involving specific malformation of neuronal circuits in the cortex," says
Stachowiak.
The findings have been published in Translational Psychiatry.
Read the original article on ScienceAlert. Copyright 2017. Follow ScienceAlert on Twitter.
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-evidence-suggests-schizophrenia-begins-during-pregnancy-2017-12
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Atlanta Out Of the Darkness- Suicide Prevention Walk
Date and Time
Sunday, November 4 2018 at 2:00 PM EST to
Sunday, November 4 2018 at 3:30 PM EST
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Location
Piedmont Park
Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA
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Description
When you walk in the Out of the Darkness Walks, you join the effort with hundreds of thousands of people to
raise awareness and funds that allow the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) to invest in
new research, create educational programs, advocate for public policy, and support survivors of suicide
loss.
Walk Date: 11/04/2018
Walk Location: Piedmont Park (exact park location TBD) - Atlanta, GA
Check-in/Registration Time: 12:15 pm
Walk Begins: 2:00 pm
Walk Ends: 3:30 pm
For more information, please contact:
Contact Name: Chris Owens (alternative contact: Maryel Tomter, [email protected])
Contact Phone: 770-843-3836
Contact Email: [email protected]
Online registration closes at noon (local time) the Friday before the walk. However, anyone who
would like to participate can register in person at the walk from the time check-in begins until the
walk starts. Registration is free and open to the public. Walk donations are accepted until December
31st. (Register at
https://afsp.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.event&eventID=5233 )
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Thank you so much for your interest in joining NAMI Cobb Affiliate! Please complete the form below, and mail this with your check made out to
NAMI Cobb. (If you wish to pay by credit card, go to www. nami.org and click on “Become a Member”. You will start receiving our monthly
electronic newsletter within the month. You are also invited to attend our monthly education and support meetings at St. James Episcopal Church in
Marietta, 161 Church St. NE, on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30pm (there is a time to look at resources and brochures at 7pm). You are not
alone. Come join us.
NAMI Cobb October 2018
P.O. Box 999
Kennesaw, GA 30156
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Support Group Meetings
For families of those with a mental illness
1st Presbyterian Church
189 Church St
Marietta, GA
MONDAYS Time: 7-8:30 PM
Family Support Group Room 048
Connections Support Group Room 046
Contact Neill Blake at 770-427-5353 or
[email protected] with questions
about either support group."
Monthly NAMI Cobb
Next General Meeting October 18, 2018
Turner Chapel Room 187
492 N. Marietta Pkwy | Marietta, GA 30060
**Please mail this form along with your check to:
NAMI Cobb, P.O. Box 999 Kennesaw, GA 30156
Thank you for your membership!