South Carolina has a new Mental Health Awareness Day aiming to ease stigmas against mental illness and connect those suffering with resources to get better.
"I'm dealing with PTSD, major depression, major clinical depression, anxiety disorders and anger issues," said Donald Miner who served with the United States Marine Corps for a decade.
Today, Miner is getting help from NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness through support groups and opportunities to tell his own story of recovery.
Across the state Wednesday, groups like NAMI came together working to improve conditions and increase resources for people in South Carolina suffering from a mental illness.
"Treatments work if you can get it," said Bill Lindsey, Executive Director of NAMI South Carolina. "The problem we have in mental health and mental illness is getting the right amount of treatment and getting the funding to support those treatments."
According to NAMI, one in four adults suffer from a mental illness at some point in their lives. However, NAMI statistics say 85% of those folks go on to live a productive life.
"It's a lot more pervasive than people think," Lindsey said.