Radio Interview w/ Kim Iverson

I will be featured on Kim Iverson's radio talk show tomorrow night on Friday, January 29, 2010. We will discuss my personal experience with schizophrenia, so tune in! These are the radio stations:

(www.yourtimewithkim.com)
AUSTIN- KAMX (7PM-Midnight)
BUFFALO- WTSS (7PM-Midnight)
DENVER- KALC (7PM- Midnight)
INDIANAPOLIS- WZPL (7PM- Midnight)
KANSAS CITY- KKSN (7PM-Midnight)
MEMPHIS- WMC-FM (7PM- Midnight)
NORFLOK- WPTE (7PM- Midngith)
PORTLAND- KRSK (7PM- Midnight)
WICHITA- KFBZ (6PM- 11PM)

Thank you for your support!

To learn more about schizophrenia visit NAMI, Embracing My Mind, Inc., or Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia (Canada).

Comments

Manda said…

Ashley,

I just want to wish you the best of luck with your apparence on a radio station. That is awesome that you will be talking about your mental illness. Go spread the word, girl. Healthy, hard - working, people who just happen to have a mental illness need to get their voice heard about what a mental illness is! We see enough of women on the T.V. killing their babies because they hear devil music and serial killers that plead insanity. Not saying these people don't have leget. mental illnesses. That's not for me to decide, but the rest of America needs to know that we're not all like that. You go girl! I don't live near any of those cities, but I will see if I could get it on the 'net.
Thanks for standing up,
Amanda

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