About Us
The mission of Sunshine From Darkness is to raise awareness of mental illness and raise funds for research through special events and educational forums. The Florida organization was formed in Sarasota under the leadership of Lee and Bob Peterson as NARSAD-Florida to contribute to that goal. Since 1998, we have raised nearly $5 million. Today we are an organization based on the east coast of Florida striving to activate community support and funding for research, to erase the stigma of mental illness and to hold the promise of a cure in our lifetime.
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Mental illness is medicine’s darkest and, sadly, longest night. It is a fiend that separates parent from child, husband from wife, brother from sister. Its weapons are isolation and a kind of pain that a healthy person simply cannot understand. And it is far more widespread than you might imagine, affecting more than one out of every five U.S. adults. You have a friend or relative with mental illness in their family. You can count on it. The curse of mental illness remains hopelessness. While significant advances in treatment during the past half century represent progress in holding the villain at bay, they are partial victories at best. The ultimate victory will be research - the scientific investigation and creativity that will find treatments, cures and finally ways to prevent mental illness. |
