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National Schizophrenia Awareness Day

National Schizophrenia Awareness Day
The National Schizophrenia Foundation has declared May 24 as National Schizophrenia Awareness Day (NSAD). In its seventh year, the goal of this year's NSAD observance is to increase public awareness and understanding about schizophrenia to help "Break the Chains of Stigma."

While we at schizophrenia.com fully support increasing awareness of schizophrenia in the general public - we wish that the NSF had taken a more co-ordinated and well-organized approach to the issue. Sending out a press release on one day of the year hardly counts as a serious effort at countering this issue. In the future we'd like to see a situation where they worked more closely with other major groups and web sites to rally support across a broad range of people who have an interest in this - with support from groups such as NAMI, Schizophrenia Society of Canada, etc. - and a serious campaign in the months leading up to the date to get the word out to editors and journalists - would seem much more effective than simply sending out a press release. We support the goal - but not the implementation method - of National Schizophrenia Awareness Day.