Today, our guest Liz Liano helps us begin to explore the complex and complicated realms of mental health and mental health care. Liz is an artist, poet, musician, and a person with a mental health condition. Liz is also the President of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Southern New Mexico. (NAMI-SNM). Previously employed as a Peer Support Specialist at the Memorial Medical Center's Behavioral Health Unit, she speaks to the community impacts of the shutdown of that facility in August of 2022.
She speaks openly about her own experience and perspectives on how Covid 19, loneliness, social disconnection, technology, increasing depression, anxiety and suicide are taking a toll on the young and old in our community and communities around the country.
Liz shares some of her personal and professional story, reads one of her poems, and provides us with contact information for local and national agencies and organizations that provide support.
She speaks openly about her own experience and perspectives on how Covid 19, loneliness, social disconnection, technology, increasing depression, anxiety and suicide are taking a toll on the young and old in our community and communities around the country.
Liz shares some of her personal and professional story, reads one of her poems, and provides us with contact information for local and national agencies and organizations that provide support.
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