Brett M. Staples Brain Disorder Awareness Coalition

Brett M. Staples Brain Disorder Awareness Coalition The purpose of the Brett M.

Staples Brain Disorder Awareness Coalition is to address the problems associated with brain disorders and the impact they have on the individuals, families, the community, and law enforcement.

What is it like to live with a no fault brain disorder?Too often, family members, caregivers, friends, and even professi...
06/04/2026

What is it like to live with a no fault brain disorder?

Too often, family members, caregivers, friends, and even professionals focus on what they see from the outside. But what does the experience feel like from the inside?

In this powerful and deeply personal piece, author M. Lissa Bailey shares lessons from her own journey living with a brain disorder. Through the simple but meaningful phrase "BELIEVE THE BEST," she offers guidance for families, caregivers, friends, and neurodivergent individuals on how compassion, understanding, education, and hope can make a difference.

Whether you are supporting a loved one or living with a no fault brain disorder yourself, this is a message worth reading and sharing.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QIqV9fp0LDNNFQbd7IkIjJTFnqehgZ4H/view?usp=sharing

Serious no fault brain disorders are not a choice. Understanding, patience, and support can change lives.

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Imagine if your loved one had a broken leg but insisted they could run a marathon. Most people would immediately recogni...
06/04/2026

Imagine if your loved one had a broken leg but insisted they could run a marathon. Most people would immediately recognize there was a problem.

Now imagine your loved one has schizophrenia, bipolar disorder with psychosis, or another no fault brain disorder and genuinely does not believe anything is wrong. This condition is called anosognosia, and it affects an estimated half of people living with schizophrenia and many people with other serious brain disorders.

For families, anosognosia can be one of the most heartbreaking and frustrating symptoms. Parents, spouses, siblings, and friends often hear: "I'm not sick." "I don't need medication." "Everyone else is the problem." These statements are not necessarily denial, stubbornness, or defiance. They can be symptoms of a brain disorder affecting the person's ability to recognize their illness.

Understanding anosognosia can change how families approach conversations. Arguing, pleading, or trying to force insight often makes relationships worse. Learning communication techniques, building trust, and connecting individuals to appropriate services can be far more effective.

The more we understand anosognosia, the more compassion we can have for both those living with no fault brain disorders and the families who love them.

Serious no fault brain disorders are not a choice.

Brought to you by the Brett M. Staples Brain Disorder Awareness Coalition.

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Website: brettstaples.org



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One of the biggest misconceptions online is that people with severe brain disorders cannot improve. Many can stabilize w...
06/03/2026

One of the biggest misconceptions online is that people with severe brain disorders cannot improve. Many can stabilize with the right support, treatment, housing, and compassionate intervention.

Families should not have to become full-time crisis responders just to keep loved ones alive. Recovery support should not depend on luck or zip code.

Serious brain disorders are not a choice.

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Language matters. Words like “crazy” or “psycho” reinforce stigma that isolates millions of people living with brain dis...
06/02/2026

Language matters. Words like “crazy” or “psycho” reinforce stigma that isolates millions of people living with brain disorders.

Changing language alone will not fix broken systems, but it can change culture. Behind every diagnosis is a human being and often an exhausted family trying to survive.

Serious brain disorders are not a choice.

Brought to you by the Brett M. Staples Brain Disorder Awareness Coalition.
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Mental Health Awareness Month is over. The calendars have turned to a new month. The hashtags will fade. The special cam...
06/01/2026

Mental Health Awareness Month is over. The calendars have turned to a new month. The hashtags will fade. The special campaigns will end.

But serious no fault brain disorders do not disappear on June 1.

Families will still spend sleepless nights worrying about a loved one experiencing psychosis. Caregivers will still struggle to find treatment. People living with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression, traumatic brain injuries, and other brain-based disorders will continue facing challenges every single day of the year.

Awareness is important, but awareness alone is not enough. If we truly care about people affected by no fault brain disorders, our concern cannot be limited to one month on the calendar. It must continue through better treatment access, stronger support systems, improved crisis services, more research, earlier intervention, and policies that help people before tragedy occurs.

Many families spend years asking for help before a crisis happens. Their loved ones do not stop needing support when Mental Health Awareness Month ends. Neither should our commitment to helping them.

As we move into the rest of the year, let's remember that brain health matters every day. Let's continue educating, advocating, supporting families, and working toward a future where people with serious brain disorders receive the same compassion and medical care we would expect for any other illness.

Serious no fault brain disorders are not a choice.

Brought to you by the Brett M. Staples Brain Disorder Awareness Coalition.

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[email protected]
brettstaples.org



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Too many people only notice the failures in brain disorder systems after tragedy strikes close to home.Families across t...
06/01/2026

Too many people only notice the failures in brain disorder systems after tragedy strikes close to home.

Families across the country are quietly fighting every day to keep loved ones safe, housed, and alive while navigating fragmented systems with limited resources. Better systems mean more dignity, stability, and hope.

Serious brain disorders are not a choice.

Brought to you by the Brett M. Staples Brain Disorder Awareness Coalition.
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People often say, “Why don’t they just take their medication?” The reality is far more complicated. Medications can help...
05/31/2026

People often say, “Why don’t they just take their medication?” The reality is far more complicated. Medications can help many people significantly, but treatment can involve side effects, impaired insight, trauma from prior experiences, lack of access to providers, unstable housing, substance use, and fragmented systems. Recovery is rarely simple.

We need conversations that are honest instead of judgmental. Brain disorders are among the most complex medical conditions affecting human beings because they directly impact perception, thinking, judgment, motivation, and behavior. Oversimplifying severe illnesses helps no one — especially the people and families living through them every day.

Serious brain disorders are not a choice.
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Many people with severe brain disorders end up cycling through emergency rooms, jails, homelessness, short hospital stay...
05/30/2026

Many people with severe brain disorders end up cycling through emergency rooms, jails, homelessness, short hospital stays, and repeated crises. Families watch the same pattern happen again and again while asking one painful question: “Why are we only reacting after things explode?”

Real reform means building systems that focus on continuity of care instead of revolving-door crisis response. ACT teams, intensive case management, housing supports, treatment access, and properly implemented assisted outpatient treatment can help stabilize lives before tragedy occurs. Prevention is almost always less expensive — and more humane — than repeated crisis response.

Serious brain disorders are not a choice.
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We have normalized filming people in crisis. Videos of psychosis, mania, addiction, and emotional collapse are uploaded ...
05/29/2026

We have normalized filming people in crisis. Videos of psychosis, mania, addiction, and emotional collapse are uploaded daily for entertainment, clicks, and ridicule. Millions watch. Thousands comment. Very few stop to ask: “What if this were my child, sibling, spouse, or parent?”

Brain disorders should not become viral content. A psychotic episode is not comedy. Mania is not a meme. Public humiliation does not heal people. Social media has tremendous power either to humanize those suffering or to deepen stigma that already prevents so many from seeking help.

Serious brain disorders are not a choice. Compassion should not be optional.
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Caregivers of people with severe brain disorders are exhausted. Many are functioning on years of interrupted sleep, fear...
05/28/2026

Caregivers of people with severe brain disorders are exhausted. Many are functioning on years of interrupted sleep, fear, financial stress, trauma, and constant crisis management. Some are afraid to leave the house. Some are terrified every time the phone rings late at night. Others are silently grieving the loss of the person they once knew while still loving them deeply.

Social media often celebrates “self-care,” but caregivers of those with serious brain disorders rarely get that luxury. They are navigating systems that are fragmented, underfunded, confusing, and frequently unavailable. These families deserve support, resources, education, and compassion — not blame for trying to save someone they love.

Serious brain disorders are not a choice, and neither is loving someone through them.
Brought to you by the Brett M. Staples Brain Disorder Awareness Coalition.
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