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Expert Profile: Libby Bonner

Expertise:  I can answers questions from family members of adult patients with serious mental illnesses. I am most familiar with bipolar disorder [manic-depression] and schizophrenia. I use principles of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill to provide clinical info, emotional support, and practical suggestions, including finances/insurance. Emphasis is on family health; family preservation and functioning; coping skills; and effective communications with patients [consumers] and with providers of services. I am not qualified to help families with patients under 18 I cannot answer questions about herbal remedies.
I have a daughter w/ bipolar illness. Have experience with clinical medicine/psychiatry through my work in a hospital library. I have taken and now monitor the NAMI Family to Family educational program and I facilitate NAMI family caring and sharing evenings.

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What do you like about this subject?  There is nothing to like about mental illness but much to be admired about patients and their families as they struggle to reconstruct their individual and family lives after diagnosis.
What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?  Hope to train other NAMI caring/sharing facilitators. Hope to become a better help to my daughter. Hope to enlarge my NAMI affiliate's outreach services.
Something controversial or provocative about this subject  Brain disorders should be, but are not, covered by insurance equally with other illnesses, surgeries, and accidents [insurance parity]. The seriously mentally ill who are so symptomatic that they can no longer make reasoned decisions should be treated whether or not they agree; however, they can make an advance psychiatric directive so that their wishes will be honored when they are ill as to who
Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:  The symptoms of brain disorders [mental illnesses] are disordered thoughts, moods, and behavior. The 'bad' behavior that is symptomatic of mental illnesses is not chosen behavior, under the patient's control, and is not being directed to, nor caused by, those around him/her. Mental illnesses are caused by problems of brain chemistry; medicines are directed toward correcting these neurochemical p
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Thanks again for the wonderful insight and suggestions!
(Matt on 08/25/08)
i would like to answer your questions to me, but u r maxed out.
(judie on 08/19/08)
Ms. Bonner is great! I am SO glad I found this site with caring and intelligent people like Ms. Bonner sharing their advice.
(Matt on 08/19/08)
Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately that is what I was afraid the response would be. I don't think there is much chance for success, but I am jus
(Matt on 08/19/08)
Thank you. I appreciate your replying so quickly. Even typing in my question has helped me to gain perspective. I did attend a Survivors of Suicide s
(Jan on 08/14/08)
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Recent Answers from Libby Bonner
2008-08-26  Recent diagnosis How do these two sentences reconcile?? "She isn't worried at all about the diagnosis. ...My issue is that of extreme depression over the diagnosis." And when you speak of the "extreme depression...
2008-08-25  Getting help for dad In a hurry, but congratulations. Thought he was OUT of house. Stepmom still willing to pay for treatment? You MUST have a professional involved. Contact that psych hospital whose site you sent...
2008-08-20  bipolar mix with major depression Thank you for all the info - it certainly wasn't too long, and it certainly is heartbreaking. I wish I now had the timeline more clear - it must be me. Major depression, 10 yrs ago. Gallbladder...
2008-08-19  bi-polar mix with major depression If you or someone can do this - might mean paying for it, depending on her insurance, where she is treated, etc. - she should ask for a second opionion. Lots of meds, lots of diagnoses....I would want...
2008-08-14  help for families with bi-polar sibling Is he taking any meds? Will his doc talk w/ you - maybe not, re privacy - to suggest residential placement. Or have you talked to Kaiser about it? Your best bet is local info. Call a NAMI affiliate...
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