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“It started tearing me down early”: Illustrator and writer Howie Noel shares about his upcoming graphic memoir on life with generalized anxiety disorder

1 Comment / Conditions, Mental Health, Patient Experiences / By patientslikeme

Today is World Mental Health day, a day for education, awareness and advocacy, and that’s where Howie Noel’s story comes in. There are more than 30,000 members living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder on PatientsLikeMe, and it’s for people like these, people like him, that Noel wrote his semi-autobiographic illustrated memoir, Float. We recently sat down with him to talk […]

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Mental Illness Awareness Week 2012: Dismantling the Stigma

Mental Health / By patientslikeme

Did you know that one in four adults – or approximately 57.7 million Americans – experiences a mental health problem in any given year? Or that one in 17 lives with a serious, chronic mental illness? Since 1990, National Mental Illness Awareness Week has been recognized by the U.S. Congress as a time for mental

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Share your experiences with Stresam

52 Comments / Patient Experiences / By patientslikeme

Stresam is an international brand of etifoxine, a non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) and anticonvulsant drug. It is used to treat anxiety disorders – such as general anxiety disorder (GAD) or social anxiety disorder or panic disorder – and to promote peripheral nerve healing in patients with peripheral neuropathy. At PatientsLikeMe, where more than 120,000 patients are

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