Cinda Johnson, a professor and the director of the special education graduate program at Seattle University, joins us in this episode of the Finding Mental Health podcast. After her daughter was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in college, the two collaborated to write “A Perfect Chaos,” a memoir told from the perspective of mother and daughter abou…

In this episode, Delaney talks with Katherine Switz, co-founder of The Stability Network, after woking as a successful consultant with the prestigious Macenzie Consulting Firm. Katherine tells her how her personal experience with mental illness propelled her to start The Stability Network—an organization whose mission is to find professionals willi…

Penny Frese has a doctorate in Fine Arts and for the past 20 years has advocated for universal mental health education in schools. In this episode, Penny shares with us how her husband and psychologist Fred Frese’s illness, schizophrenia, and her daughter’s illness, depression, led to her current life’s work. She recalls the story of when her daugh…

Delaney talks with Jessie Close, who alongside her sister, actress Glenn Close, founded Bring Change 2 Mind, to fight stigma surrounding mental illness. Jessie was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 45 and recalls that “even with so much evidence I didn’t want to believe I had a mental illness. I thought maybe I was faking it.” She discusses th…