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Mental Health America

is excited to launch My Plan, My Life: My Psychiatric Advance Directive — a new online resource to inform consumers with mental illness, their families and health care professionals about the importance of psychiatric advance directives. This program is sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

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Learn More About Psychiatric Advance Directives

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Similar to a medical advance directive or a health care power of attorney, a psychiatric advance directive is a legal document completed in a time of wellness that provides instructions regarding treatment or services one wishes to have or not have during a mental health crisis, and may help influence his or her care.

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This content was developed by a team of renowned mental health experts


Dr. David Shern
President & CEO of
Mental Health America

Dr. Marvin Swartz
Professor and Head,
Division of Social and
Community Psychiatry
at the Duke University
School of Medicine

Delaney Ruston
Physician, Advocate,
and filmmaker

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