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Colby Harvey says she never takes her ‘believe’ ring off.

Local women shares her experiences with mental health

By JENNIFER GORDON

C St. Joseph News-Press

olby Harvey wants other kids to have an easier time in high school than she did.

In retrospect, the 21-yearold St. Joseph woman knows why her time at Central was so difficult. She knows why the ups and downs, even in her childhood relationships, hit her especially hard.

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outgoing personality attracted a large friend circle. She danced on the school’s poms squad.

She couldn’t explain why she felt sad. Why she struggled to sleep. Why her appetite waned.

Why she cried so much. Many of her symptoms happened behind closed doors. Ms. Harvey recognized her behavior was out of the ordinary, but she didn’t know where to turn.

“I knew when I talked to my parents, they would say, ‘Why are you depressed? Why? Why? Why?’ and I think that’s what was hard,” she says. “I didn’t have a why.

There were no events that would have made me depressed.”

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Ms. Harvey’s journey to receive her depression diagnosis and her struggles to know how to live with her mental illness prompted her to help others recognize and manage symptoms in themselves. She’ll be speaking as part of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day on May 9 in Civic Center Park. The event goes from 4 to 7 p.m.

Ms. Harvey had to take the fi rst step to address her symptoms.

During one particularly rough, sleepless night, she Facebook messaged her counselor, Chris Danford, and told her how she was feeling.

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“One of the cards says, ‘You play a game of Trivial Pursuit with friends who don’t know you have schizophrenia, so you win,’” Ms. Nold reads. “‘So you get points there, but then well-meaning friends tell you the voices in your head aren’t real and you’re making them up, so then you lose points.’ It’s really kind of an interesting way to see (mental illness).”

The game is one of her more interesting discoveries in a project that’s taken her more than two and half years to complete.

With all the time she spends with the catalog or thinking about the catalog, Ms. Nold almost can’t help but share all the information she’s learned.

“It’s all I do,” she says.

“I think about it when I get home. I talk about it to Matt Reid | St. Joseph News- Press people I don’t even know.”

Amber Nold, a Missouri Western student, has spent the past two and a half years cataloging material about It’s why even her converthe Glore Psychiatric Museum. sations sound like presentations on the Glore.

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St. Joseph woman reinvigorates Glore Psychiatric Museum

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Joseph Museums as the first Michael Hirter intern.

The internship program, funded by grants family and friends of late city councilmember Michael Hirter gave to the museum, should have lasted a year.

A collection of pieces for the Glore Psychiatric Museum kept Ms. Nold around for much longer.

Museum staff started gathering any items they could find about the state psychiatric hospital, what used to be known as State Lunatic Asylum No. 2, after it moved in 2004. The items ended up in miscellaneous boxes in a small room of the Glore.

When she started her internship, Ms. Nold knew the boxes needed to be sorted and cataloged.

“No one wanted to touch it, and I was like, ‘Oh, me, me, me. Please let it be me,’” she says.

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mber Nold starts the survey of the items she cataloged for the Glore Psychiatric Museum right away.

There’s this game she found called Interference. It’s like Candy Land or Chutes and Ladders in that it’s a racing board game with pawns that players move from start to finish. There are cards that try to derail your progress.

Only instead of getting stuck in a molasses swamp or landing on a chute, the cards give you side effects of a mental illness.

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Woman shares mental health experiences CONTINUED FROM Page 1 Mrs. Danford, now a counselor at Bishop Le Blond high school, said she doesn’t know what possessed her to check her Facebook that morning, but she recognized the cry for help right away. Mrs. Danford’s daughter also struggles with depression and anxiety.

Mrs. Danford understood how difficult a mental health diagnosis can be for both the child and the parents.

“How do you tell your mom and dad, ‘I feel awful about life?’” Mrs. Danford says.

She sat down with Ms. Harvey the next day and talked about what was going on and how to address the issue with Ms. Harvey’s parents. The meeting led to Ms. Harvey’s diagnosis.

The first step didn’t end her

struggle with her illness.

Ms. Harvey overdosed on her first antidepressant medicine and went on suicide watch. She stayed in a children’s mental health treatment facility in Smithville, Mo., for a few days.

The experience gave her time to reflect on what she wanted to do with her life, Ms. Harvey says. She decided when she got back to school that she wanted to help others who faced the same struggles she did.

Problems at school prompted her to put her vow into action quickly.

The school district had a few suicides that year. Ms. Harvey decided to do something about it. She went to the school administration and to Mrs. Danford and started a support group to address depression and suicidal thoughts. She called it S.O.S. Right away, Ms. Har-

vey learned what kind of impact she had on others.

Other students came to her in private and told her their stories. They said hearing what Ms. Harvey went through gave them courage.

“From then on I knew that’s what I wanted to do. I had to do that. That’s what I truly think I was put on this earth to do after going through with all this,” Ms. Harvey says.

Mrs. Danford says that Ms. Harvey’s work did more than start a school group. She says it opened the door for the St. Joseph Public School District to look at other ways to address depression and thoughts of suicide. It led to more programs about the topic in the schools.

“What she has done with that at her young age is huge,” Mrs. Danford says.

Ms. Harvey went to the

University of Missouri for a few years and recently returned to St. Joseph. She approached Joe Turner and Cindy Crouse, the coordinator of counseling and guidance for the school district, about how she could get involved with mental health awareness.

In addition to the program in Civic Park, she also has plans to speak to local schools about her story.

She wants to make a difference for others, but from the very first time she shared her story, she’s kept her goal small. “... if one person could benefit from this horrible, horrible journey that I’ve gone through, if one person can benefit from the pain I’ve gone through ... I want that to happen,” she says.

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Colby Harvey decided to get her tattoo in 2010 after she had overdosed and was hospitalized as a result of depression. ‘(The tattoo) reminds me to believe in myself,’ Ms. Harvey says.

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St. Joseph woman reinvigorates Glore Psychiatric Museum contained items from the 1920s. Another had the Interference board game.

Old photographs cropped up everywhere.

Ms. Nold, who had never cataloged for a museum prior to the internship, learned how to number each piece she found. She wrote down descriptions of items and scanned documents.

She placed photographs into binders and looked at maps of the old state psychiatric hospital to estimate the dates.

“It was quite an undertaking and she’s really done a wonderful job,” says Jackie Lewin, the executive director of the St. Joseph Museum.

The internship has more or less become a job for Ms. Nold. She has an office and works about 20 hours a week at the St. Joseph Museum. She gives tours and helps with research requests. She’s passionate about connecting people to the information they need.

“That’s the point,” she says. “We don’t have museums to preserve history so we can horde it away. We need to keep it safe, but it’s your history as residents.

You need to access it.”

Ms. Nold feels that her time with all the items has enriched her understanding about mental health issues and treatments today.

The museum’s items are like a narrative, she says, a story she could identify with, or at least be sympathetic to.

She uncovered some letters the first superintendent of the state hospital wrote to family members of patients. Ms. Nold found them eye opening.

“There’s things that you’re aware of, but not really. For example, I knew at this time that they didn’t have electricity, and they wouldn’t have body refrigeration technology.

But I still wasn’t expecting to find letters that said, ‘Your husband died and was buried,’” she says.

Older books about mental health treatment are interesting, too, she says.

She found some books on psychiatric treatment from the 1950s. In the grand historical scheme of things, a 60-year-old book isn’t that old. But in the

1950s, electroshock therapies and lobotomies still were common treatments.

Even Interference, made in 1989 by the University of Missouri, has historical value, Ms. Nold says. Part of the game talks about large state psychiatric hospitals, which don’t exist anymore.

Come next month, the tours and the photographs and Interference will all be someone else’s talking

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Ms. Nold is graduating with her history degree in a few weeks.

She heads to Bangladesh for mission work in July.

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Exploring Massachusetts in Kansas Downtown Lawrence is heartbeat of the city

By BROOKE VANCLEAVE St. Joseph News-Press

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It might be close home, but WEEKENDER it willtocertainly take all weekend to see everything Massachusetts Street has to offer.

This iconic shopping and dining district in downtown Lawrence, Kan., packs a big punch.

Mass Street is about six blocks long but houses more than 300 shops, restaurants and businesses, says Cathy Hamilton, director of Downtown Lawrence, Inc. “I think there’s a real honestto-goodness passion for maintaining Mass Street as the retail and business core of the city from just about everybody,” Ms. Hamilton says.

Mass Street is considered the heart of Lawrence for good reason. Since the city’s inception,

the street has served as its major commercial hub.

“It predates the Civil War. The settlers literally got off of the river and settled right here,” Ms. Hamilton says.

As the home of the University of Kansas, Lawrence benefits from the large influx of students, family members and sports fans visiting the downtown area.

“Every year we get this fresh injection of college students coming down and it’s all new to them.

They love to shop down here because they may be used to just malls,” Ms. Hamilton says.

The university’s presence also contributes to the city’s culture, bringing in theater productions and art exhibits in addition to sporting events.

She says the younger crowds bring a youthful energy to the downtown culture. Stores and restaurants catering to younger clientele are mixed in with more

mainstream furniture shops, art galleries and upscale restaurants that tend to attract older customers.

“It’s a delicate balance, but I do think somehow it always seems to work,” she says.

She says much of Mass Street’s appeal is how easy it is to navigate. The sidewalks are flat and walkable and parking is pretty easy to find. The large variety of things to see and do also keeps visitors’ interest.

“I think if you’re a serious shopper you’ll need two days to go up and down both sides (of Mass Street),” Ms. Hamilton says. “... Some of the merchants will tell you that their weekend business is mostly out-of-town business.”

Visitors can fully experience Mass Street by staying at the historic Eldridge Hotel right on the strip. They can dine at restaurants like 715, which uses locally grown foods to produce European bistro fare. On the same block as The Eldridge is Made, an Etsy-inspired store at 700 Mass that sells handmade gift items.

local, regional and national artists and crafters because she has always been a big fan of handmade products.

“I hoped that people in Lawrence would also like to shop handmade,” she says.

Downtown Lawrence also hosts parades, concerts, outdoor movies and other events throughout the year. The annual Busker Festival will showcase street musicians and performers Aug. 23 to 25.

“It brings in a safe but strange crowd,” Bob Werts, owner of Waxman Candles, says of the Submitted photo festival.

Several restaurants along Massachusetts Mr. Werts started his business Street offer outdoor dining options. in 1970 and has moved locations three times, but has always “One thing that we like about stayed near Mass Street. The being a college town are all the business currently is located at visitors that come, especially 609 Mass, across the street from parents of students. It draws a Free State Brewing Company. variety of people to Lawrence,” “Lawrence has a lot to offer, a says Jennifer Richards, who lot that goes on downtown day owns Made with her husband, and night,” he says. “... It’s a fun Matt. place to cruise.”

Made specializes in home decor, jewelry, bath and body supplies, artisan foods, children’s Brooke VanCleave can be reached and baby items and pet products. at brooke.vancleave@newspressnow.com.

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