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Located in Raleigh, N.C., NAMI North Carolina offers a range of educational, support and advocacy services to people with mental illnesses. The organization provides a family-to-family education program that includes informational and training courses in clinical depression and schizophrenia bipolar, panic, borderline personality and compulsive disorders. It offers the In Our Own Voice program, which features educational services for the public. The organization also offers the NAMI Connection program, which features recovery support group services. NAMI North Carolina is a part of NAMI, which is also known as National Alliance on Mental Illness and offers various health care and support services. Founded in 1979, NAMI has affiliates in several U.S. states and serves more than 1,000 local communities across the country.

HistoryMy name is Andrew Diaz and I am an artist with a specialty in art that represents mental illness. After having been diagnosed with bipolar type 2 in 2008, I decided to set my artistic skills towards representing mental illness so myself and others could not feel so alone. Expression is sometimes all that we have and all that can help when we need that support in getting through the dark times. My artwork always has two aspects that help me in getting through my mental illness. First, my art always has a message, always. I do not believe in creating work that just has that