Name: Early Recovery after Psychosis
Start: 2025-04-06T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-06T15:30:00-04:00
Location: 313 SE Maynard Rd

Welcoming Wellness is back with another Mental Health Professional to help you care for a loved one with mental illness.
About this Event

Welcome to "Early Recovery after Psychosis" presentation!

Speaker: Sarah Merritt Ryan

Sarah Merritt Ryan is an author, speaker, advocate, and support group facilitator for mental illness. She is a survivor of four psychotic breaks who made a full recovery while choosing to remain on antipsychotics for life. She is diagnosed with schizophrenia and has been in complete remission, symptom-free for 13 years. Since her last break, she has married, given birth to a son who is now in kindergarten, and runs her own successful marketing business.

Sarah has a blog on Psychology Today called “Healing Mind.” These posts are training material and required reading for resident psychiatrists at the UNC Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program (STEP) Clinic at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a published author. Sarah also has presented webinars for NAMI North Carolina and speaks regularly at NC State University. She is the Lead Facilitator of the NAMI Wake Connection Support Group (CSG).

Sarah has a degree in Journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Master of Science in Communication from NC State. She is published academically in social sciences.

Topics to be discussed:

Sarah’s personal story
Excerpt from her upcoming memoir – What is it like to be inside a person’s mind in crisis?
Early recovery from psychosis.
How to maintain long-term wellness

Time is allowed for questions & answers at the end of the presentation.

If you sign up to attend online, you will receive the Zoom Webinar link 24 hours before the start of the event.

Whether you are a parent, grandparent, caregiver, friend, or ally of a person struggling with a mental health crisis, this event is sure to provide valuable knowledge to help you help them on their journey to mental wellness.

Welcoming Wellness provides monthly hybrid presentations by industry professionals on all topics related to mental health. Click here to learn more about our Mental Health Initiative.