of Southern Arizona). The education comes through NAMISA and reading one of his favorite authors, bipolar psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jameson. It took time to discover the right combination of medications that worked best for Scott.
Before his successfull recovery he was hospitalized, couldn’t keep a job, was unable to maintain a relationship, and was estranged from his mother. That is all changed for Scott Whitley. He was even able to be his mother’s caregiver before her death.
As group home support staff we are the ones that can advocate for our residents to make sure they are provided with every opportunity to be successful in living with any mental illness that they have. In the words of Scott Whitley “It’s just like diabetes or high blood pressure, It’s an illness, not a character flaw.” Our residents can not only live successfully with their mental illness diagnosis, they can help others like Scott has, with group home support staff’s help.
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