Carol Kivler Biography

Carol Kivler of Lawrence, NJ, is the founder of Courageous Recovery, a division of Kivler Communications designed to raise awareness to remove the stigma of mental illness and to instill hope in those who live with it. Through Courageous Recovery, Kivlers goal is to change the way society and the medical profession views people living with mental illness. Her mission is to have society and medical professionals view individuals living with mental illness as courageous survivors who want to be accepted, not rejected; respected, not pitied; and admired, not feared. Carol considers herself a courageous survivor expert.

Carol provides programs to hospitals, medical and nursing schools as well to associations, organizations, corporations, school systems, and government agencies. Her personal story has impacted the way these populations view mental illness.

First diagnosed with mental illness in 1990, Kivler suffers from periodic acute bouts of medication-resistant depression, which in her case is only responsive to ECT (electro-convulsive therapy). At the time of her diagnosis, Kivler was a 40-year-old mother of three healthy children and working as a part-time college professor. Since 1990, Carol has had four acute episodes each time requiring hospitalization and additional ECT treatments. Presently, Carol has been living in recovery for the last 11 years.

Carol has been interviewed numerous times about her experience on television, radio, and in print. After her last acute episode, Carol authored an interactive journal, Blessings: My Journal of Gratitude. Her new book, Will I Ever Be the Same Again? Transforming the Face of ECT (Shock Therapy), was released in May 2010.

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