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Hero of the day: Terrie Williams

Oct 27 2006 | Comments 0

Public relations executive Terrie Williams has worked with some of the biggest names in the celebrity world, but she’s speaking out now not to push a client’s agenda, but to push her own.

Williams was the keynote speaker at American Psychiatric Association’s Office of Minority and National Affairs in Chicago, where she emphasized the problems with mental healthcare faced by African-Americans. Williams herself has battled depression, so she knows what she’s talking about.

“There’s no one on this planet who hasn’t been effected with mental depression,” Williams said. “I want to make people, in general, to understand that without your mental health you have nothing. We as a people are in pain.”

PR guru Terrie Williams focuses on mental health for Blacks

liz | 4:32 PM | Uncategorized

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Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.