Tag: National Alliance of Mental Illness Southwest Missouri

In Ozarks’ care for mental illness, NAMI & Appleby are allies

Talk about turning a difficult situation into a positive. Stephanie Appleby is proof that anyone can be affected by mental illness – and overcome it. For 14 years, Appleby suffered from panic attacks and agoraphobia, an anxiety disorder in which the sufferer perceives the environment as dangerous or uncomfortable, often due to the environment’s vast openness […]