Personal Story

Daniel A. Popovich is a Catholic poet, author and advocate who lives in the Midwest.  

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He was first diagnosed with a major mental illness as a young adult after a summer-long visit to a Catholic seminary to pursue what he thought was a vocation to the priesthood. This was not meant to be.

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He is not a mental health professional and only offers the contents of this website as examples of how he thinks and what he does to cope and thrive despite having a chronic mental health problem.

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He hopes that by sharing his own path to wellness, which embraces compassionate Catholicism, others will be inspired to find and share their own unique paths to wellness.