I am a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness or NAMI. I am training to become a speaker for their program called "In Our Own Voice". IOOV is where individuals who have lived with mental illness go out into the public and speak about what it's like to live with mental illness in the real world.

I have lived with bipolar illness since I was a child but was not diagnosed correctly until 2004 at the age of 52. For 20 years before that, I was misdiagnosed with major depression, which is not unusual for people like me. My treatment was very inadequate and it was not until I received the correct diagnosis that I truly started living a meaningful life.

NAMI is primarily an advocacy organization for the families of individuals with serious mental illnesses and have chapters all across the country. Here is their website:

www.nami.org

Perhaps you might find something there that may be of assistance to you in your quest to educate yourselves in order to help both you and your daughter.