This is the final installment of a short series with NAMI Executive Director, Marsha Martino.

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NAMI stands for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

In today’s episode, Marsha continues talking about some of what she sees come across her desk as well as NAMI resources and how to get in contact with the organization.

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This is the first installment of a short series with NAMI Executive Director, Marsha Martino.

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NAMI stands for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

In today’s episode, Paolo begins introductions about what NAMI stands for and has Marsha speak about her role as well as some of the work she does for the organization. Direct Link to our new charity crowdfunding campaign! https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/cam​…

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This is the third installment of a short series with Dr. Russell Bourne.

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In this closing chapter with Dr. Bourne, Paolo and him talk about coping mechanisms and different situations surrounding mental health. Direct Link to our new charity crowdfunding campaign! https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/cam​…

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This is the second installment of a short series with Dr. Russell Bourne.

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In this second chapter, Paolo and Dr. Bourne dive into some helpful coping strategies when working with a clinical professional as well as talking about some mechanisms that has worked for Paolo.

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This is the first installment of a short series with Dr. Russell Bourne.

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In this first chapter, Paolo gets introductions out of the way with Dr. Borne who tells us a little more about himself and how he got into his career within the CIA and ultimately, being a clinical psychologist. An interesting story, Dr. Borne tells us how he didn’t expect to end up working for the CIA, but it was a career that led him going different places around the world. He and Paolo then go into some mental health aspects and some advice for upcoming psychologists.

This is the 4th and final chapter with special guest, Dr. Kelly Everson.

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In the final chapter, Paolo splits the conversation into two segments, starting off by going across board by beginning with child mental health and issues facing the new generation and then going into our first letter that came through our marketing department, addressed to Dr. Everson, dealing with personal mental health matters.

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This is the 3rd segment with special guest, Dr. Kelly Everson.

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This episode deals with and expands on childhood mental health issues and treatment. Paolo starts off by asking the most common mental health issues youth come in for treatment. Dr. Everson says that the #1 issue is anxiety and stress. They then talk about coping skills for some of the mental health issues they discuss such as deep breathing. Dr. Everson also goes on to list such as attention and difficulty focusing; ADHD, and time management issues. She lists resources people can use such as readings, videos and visual metaphors to help people understand coping mechanisms. She says a lot of these issues can happen to any child such as those on the spectrum, attention issues, everyday children and can happen most often with sensory overload, which children are exposed to everyday. Sometimes it is even beneficial to understand the buildup to a breakdown and make sure you can calm yourself down before a meltdown. This can apply to adults as well to motivate yourself to keep going with a lot on your plate. They touch upon medicating as well such as proper medicating and over medicating a child and if it works or not.

The second segment with special guest speaker Dr. Kelly Everson.

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This segment deals with Paolo and Dr. Everson discussing the Baker Act while focusing on child psychology. Some of us may not know what the Baker Act is, the pro’s and con’s of this action and how to build trust with your psychologist to gain the most out of the session as well as touching upon cognitive therapy.

According to Dr. Everson’s biography via the Palm Beach Behavioral Health and Wellness webpage, “Dr. Kelly Everson is Co-Owner and Florida Licensed Psychologist at Palm Beach Behavioral Health and Wellness. Additionally, Dr. Everson serves as the Training Director for PBBHW’s psychology training programs. Dr. Everson specializes in psychotherapy and assessment of children, adolescents and families. Dr. Everson received her bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and continued her education at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, earning a Master’s and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Family Psychology.”

Paolo talks with President and CEO of CTE Hope, Brenda Easter. Brenda lost her son, Zachary, in December 2015 and she alongside her husband, founded the non-profit foundation that became CTE Hope to fulfill her son’s last wishes, which was “to make football a safer sport.”

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Published in September of 2020, the novel “Love, Zac” was published, which details Zac’s experiences through diary entries and with the help from family, friends and coaches. The main goal through the book is to bring awareness to the servility of concussions and the warning signs of CTE.

This episode covers the introduction of Zac’s story through Brenda and giving a some information about his early sports life, first concussions and noticing the onset of Zac’s first symptoms of CTE while also going in depth more about relevant studies focusing on CTE, levels of concussions and how Zac carried himself early on.

*Warning: This episode deals with sensitive subject matter such as suicide, viewer discretion is advised. *

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Paolo talks with President and CEO of CTE Hope, Brenda Easter. Brenda lost her son, Zachary, in December 2015 and she alongside her husband, founded the non-profit foundation that became CTE Hope to fulfill her son’s last wishes, which was “to make football a safer sport.”

Published in September of 2020, the novel “Love, Zac” was published, which details Zac’s experiences through diary entries and with the help from family, friends and coaches. The main goal through the book is to bring awareness to the servility of concussions and the warning signs of CTE.

Part two talks about the coping skills Zac tried to maintain throughout his later college life. He was initially living a healthy lifestyle to cope, but this also came with negatives such as social isolation. By the time he was a senior in college, he started having issues continuing his healthy coping mechanism and developed his own form of self-medication. This also followed with more misdiagnosis and frustrations. This episode also deals with the tragedy of Zac’s death and what came after.

The last segment in the three part series, with guest speaker: Brenda Easter.

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Part three talks about Brenda’s coping after the loss of her son Zac and the pain of losing a loved one. She goes on to talk about how Zac inspired CTE Hope and their mission to support those who have suffered from the ill-effects of multiple concussions and traumatic brain injuries. Brenda goes on to tell Paolo that while the loss of her son was tragic, she had to keep going on for the sake of her family. She also talks about how one of the best ways to cope is to find a purpose and whichever situation you find yourself in, you can always find a passion to pursue in life. She goes on to describe ways to heal and cope by not forgetting a lost loved one, but to embrace them and be open to sharing their story in order to help others who may be in a similar situation. Brenda then talks about the research CTE Hope has done and their correlations between concussions and enzymes that might help prevent permanent brain trauma in regards to proper healing.

Paolo’s former athletes and friend discusses the mental health struggles he experienced early on in his college years and what he has done to cope.

We are sharing this story so that others recognize the power of opening up in a safe space, to hopefully open the door for them to take a step in their healing process.

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