Tag: #cmaware

• Getting to know CMA’s COO & VP; Nancy’s Story

  

  Nancy Harris Bonk, the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc, is a patient leader and educator who has been helping those living with migraine disease since 2003. She developed episodic migraine disease during puberty. Then, in December 1996, Nancy slipped and fell on a patch of black ice in her…

  May 31, 2022

  Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Get Real About Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life

  #chronicmigraine, #chronicmigraineawareness, #CMA, #CMA10thAnniversary, #CMADay, #CMADirectors, #cmaware, #migraine

• Getting to know CMA Directors; Gina’s Story

  

  I have had migraine for as long as I can remember. Migraine has been a part of my life for nearly all of it, which is well over 40 years! I became chronic daily 19 years ago and my currently diagnosis is chronic intractable migraine with aura. I have been spreading migraine awareness as well…

  Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc.

  May 24, 2022

  Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life

  #chronicmigraine, #chronicmigraineawareness, #CMA, #CMA10thAnniversary, #CMADay, #cmaware, #migraine

• Getting to know CMA Directors; Julie’s Story

  

  I’m Julie Tazzia.  I’ve been living with migraine for over half a century.  I wasn’t diagnosed, however, until about 14 years after my attacks began.  I started out episodic, but gradually became chronic.  Both of my daughters have migraine as well.  Of all the things to inherit from me, it had to be migraine! I…

  Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc.

  May 10, 2022

  Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Migraine Community

  #chronicmigraine, #CMA, #CMA10thAnniversary, #CMADirectors, #cmaware

• Getting to know CMA Directors; Beth’s Story

  

  Hello CMA friends! My name is Beth. I joined the CMA team about a year and a half ago when they started a series of short surveys. I’ll admit that after the first one, I couldn’t help myself from reaching out with some feedback on ways to improve it. I ended up signing on to…

  Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc.

  May 2, 2022

  Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life

  #chronicmigraineawareness, #CMA, #CMA10thAnniversary, #CMADirectors, #cmaware, #GetToKnowUs

• Finding your way through migraine mentally intact

  

  Written by Kristen Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. As I look back to my youth, I can honestly say that I have always had depression and anxiety, I just did not know it. In the 70’s and 80’s no one talked about these things, so I had no idea why I felt the way…

  May 25, 2021

  Advocacy and Migraine, Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraines, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, stigma

  #chronicmigraineawareness, #cmaware, #mentalhealth

• Migraine and Mental Health

  

  Written by Judith Flanagan (United Advocacy Australia) for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. This year I am turning 41 years old, and I have lived with migraine for thirty-four of those years. As you can imagine, migraine has most definitely affected my mental health. It has definitely affected my ability to spend long hours working and…

  Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc.

  May 15, 2021

  Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Mental Health and Migraines, Migraine Community, Patient Perspective

  #chronicmigraine, #cmaware, #mentalhealth