Michelle Hammer, the creator of Schizophrenic.NYC shared her experience with TheMighty.com on How I Opened Up About My Schizophrenia Diagnosis – and Started Helping Others Sponsored by Janssen. Hi, I’m Michelle Hammer, a schizophrenic girl living in NYC. I created and founded the mental health clothing line Schizophrenic.NYC. At this point in my life, I [...]
Michelle Hammer Talks about Changing the Mental Health Conversation through Clothing and Wearable Gear. Michelle Hammer considers herself lucky. “I’m a very lucky schizophrenic,” she said. One day while on the subway she encountered a homeless man talking to himself like she used to do. It forced her to see that without meds, [...]
We were thrilled to find out that "Voices" the documentary about Michelle, our founder, is featured in this weeks WebMD Health Now Podcast. If you are interested in listening to the Podcast you can do so here: https://t.co/KlpC59xyeh
Here at Schizophrenic.NYC we cannot be more excited to announce that "Voices" by WebMD is a finalist for the Tribeca X Award! Now in its third year, the Tribeca X Award honors the best in storytelling at the intersection of advertising and entertainment from the past year. The nine finalists feature work from acclaimed [...]
So glad that Michelle was featured in the article "Don’t Be Paranoid You Look" Great by Sydney MacDonald over at Convicts.NYC. “Things are just still really hard because even if you’re medicated it doesn’t mean the voices go away, it just means the voices become more positive.” There are few places in the world that [...]
Michelle recently gave a speech at Raritan Valley Community College for the To Write Love On Her Arms Club. One of the members Brittany, wrote on her blog about the speech. You can check it out at her blog Depression Diaries. Michelle and Brittany
We are thrilled to announce that Schizophrenic.NYC was featured in Psychology Today. Read Michelle's full interview Here >
Head on over to Transformation-is-Real.com/Blog to read Michelle's newest Blog post about growing up with Schizophrenia called I wasn't a Bitch, I was Schizophrenic. It's an eye-opening piece about growing up with Schizophrenia and dealing with symptoms on a daily basis. I didn't want to speak. I didn't want to be noticed. [...]
Here at Schizophrenic.NYC we are excited to announce that we made it into The Mighty's Summer Gift Guide. You can check out the Gift Guide Here >
We are so excited to announce that Schizophrenic.NYC and Michelle's story was featured in Inside Lacrosse Magazine May 2017. Inside Lacrosse Editor in Chief Matt Kinnear found out about Michelle's blog post Lacrosse Saved My Life and thought it would be a great idea to have a feature of Michelle in his magazine. You can subscribe the magazine HERE, or [...]
Our founder, Michelle was ecstatic that her blog entry How the sport of Lacrosse saved my Life was featured in LacrosseAllStars! Michelle was a college Lacrosse player, and captain at SUNY Oneonta. If you would like to see the feature, you can do so HERE.
Michelle the founder of Schizophrenic.NYC was featured in Sarah Fader's Podcast! Sarah Fader is the CEO of StigmaFighters.com. Listen to the Podcast below!
Our founder Michelle had the great opportunity to be interviewed by HOWL Magazine. Michelle speaks about her journey with Schizophrenia and getting her diagnosis. As well as trying to make a change in how NYC sees mental health. Read More Here >
A lot of brilliant work is being done to end mental health stigma. Lots of important conversations are taking place as well as creative routes of sparking awareness and dialogue. One such creative initiative is a New York City based clothing company called Schizophrenic.nyc. Read More >
Schizophrenic.NYC was featured in MyLola.com's Holiday gift Guide, featuring 6 feminist gift ideas to give to the ladies in your life this holiday season. Check it out Here >
We are very excited to announce that the Schizophrenic.NYC shop was featured in TheMighty.com's Holiday Gift Guide! We are even featured as the #1 spot! What an honor! Thank you The Mighty! Read The Gift Guide Here >
Schizophrenic.NYC was featured in THISISYNA.com Holiday Gift Guide 2016! It may seem super early in the year to put out a gift guide, but America's had a rough week. I think we deserve some holiday cheer in the form of Starbucks red cups and gift guides to get us in the mood for shopping for [...]
Michelle created some custom artwork for Breadcrumbs Mag Breadcrumbs Mag is an exercise in motivation and shared inspiration, a chance to create when otherwise your professional life might not give you reason to, an outlet to plant the seeds of an idea and watch where they can go — through your own mind or someone else's. See Michelle's post Here >
Jacklyn.Lune featured our clothing in her anxiety talks section of her blog. I know so many people might take what I'm saying as invalid and for certain situations I agree. Falling, in any general sense, is always looked down upon in our society and I'm not so sure why. They say that we are human [...]
Very excited to announce that we were featured in Hallie-Kruger.com. Check out the feature to learn more about Schizophrenic.NYC. Click HERE! "Michelle Hammer is driven to change the way people view Schizophrenia. The creator, designer and founder of Schizophrenic.NYC clothing line is passionate about crushing the negative stigma associated with Schizophrenia, and collaborates with similar [...]
We got featured in the great Generation 414. It's really a great cause. Here is more info about Generation 414: Generation 414 is a 100% Organic, ethical fair-trade retail outlet that sells handmade shirts and bags by survivors of sex trafficking. They provide dignified employment and personal development opportunities to women who seek an alternative to the sex [...]
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