Mental Health Healing Through Compassionate Art

The psych ward can be an unbearably lonely place. We’re often alone with our thoughts and reflections on relapses, struggles, disappointments, and hopelessness. I know. I’ve been there. I’ve suffered with severe bipolar I disorder with psychosis for over 20 years. Mental health crises landed me in the psych ward involuntarily three times.

There are rarely get well wishes or flowers on the window ledges. Many of us have no visitors at all. We feel forgotten and abandoned—I did and was, even by my own family. I felt unloved. I was heartbroken. These were the lows of my struggles, of my life. I have since reached recovery, but the pain of those hospitalizations never seems to go away.

I created Psych Ward Greeting Cards to provide support to psychiatric inpatients when their struggles may be greatest. It's easy to join our mission - simply make handmade greeting cards fill them with hope and mail them to us and we'll deliver them to psychiatric units at leading hospitals. We were founded in 2019 and have reached over 25,000 inpatients. Our work is lifesaving. Please join us.