The Jonathan O. Cole Mental Health Consumer Resource Center is a

consumer to consumer Customer to customer (C2C or consumer to consumer) markets provide a way to allow customers to interact with each other. Traditional markets require business to customer relationships, in which a customer goes to the business in order to purchas ...

mental health Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior. It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making. Mental hea ...

organization. The Cole Resource Center provides information about a wide range of

mental disorder A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitt ...

s, as well as consultation on housing, health insurance, low cost medications, volunteer employment, and legal advocacy for

mental health consumer A mental health consumer (or mental health patient) is a person who is obtaining treatment or support for a mental disorder, also known as psychiatric or mental illness. The term was coined by people who use mental health services in an attempt to ...

s. It was co-founded by Everett Page, Evie Barkin and Anne Whitman, Ph.D. Barkin and Whitman have publicly revealed that they have

bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that last from days to weeks each. If the elevated mood is severe or associated with ...

, in line with the center's efforts to reduce the stigma of mental illness."About the Cole Resource Center"
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McLean Hospital McLean Hospital () (formerly known as Somerville Asylum and Charlestown Asylum) is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. It is noted for its clinical staff expertise and neuroscience research and is also known for the large number of ...

in Belmont, Massachusetts. The center was named for Jonathan O. Cole, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

, and a senior consultant in

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at McLean Hospital, and the founder of the Manic-Depressive & Depressive Association (MDDA)-Boston. The center has helped to develop news stories, including collaborations with ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and the ''

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''. They have contributed to television segments on psychiatric issues for the Discovery Channel, ''

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'' and '' Good Morning America''.

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* Mental health organizations in Massachusetts Belmont, Massachusetts {{US-health-org-stub

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