Getting Started with Graphic Medicine in Mental Health About me: My name is Jeannie Mecorney. I’m not a psychiatrist, I am, however an expert in my own experience. I was 6 years old when my dad was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in the 1950’s. My personal story growing up with a father diagnosed with a mental illness and a co-dependent mother points out the abdication of society in dealing with mental health. In addition, our society fails to see mental illness as a family and community disease and ostracizes the mentally ill and their families. I am writing and, more … Continue reading Mental Health Comics Liaison: Jeannie Mecorney