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The David Lawrence Center offers innovative and comprehensive mental health and substance use programs for adults and the elderly, including inpatient, outpatient, and Telehealth services. These programs have been developed to meet the needs of adults who experience mental health, emotional, psychological and substance use challenges.

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  • Blake

    Meet Blake

    From Despairing Addict to Successful Entrepreneur I snuck my first drink at ten, after seeing how much fun my father seemed to have when he drank. I discovered that alcohol made all my inhibitions dis...

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  • Deborah

    Meet Deborah

    Deborah reflects on her 60-year life journey with tragic memories and a difficult upbringing. She has endured physical abuse, addiction, health problems, divorce and financial struggles. Despite this ...

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  • Steven

    Meet Steven

    Steven, a 37 year old soft-spoken man with a quick wit and kind, gentle demeanor, had a “rough” childhood riddled with abuse, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and isolation. Steven shares, “My ...

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  • Bruce

    Meet Bruce

    Bruce is a quiet, caring, easy going man. He holds a steady job at Wal-Mart, has his own car and shares an apartment with a room mate. He enjoys spending time with his friends and likes to be happy. A...

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  • Lucy

    Meet Lucy

    After weathering a traumatic divorce, Lucy became severely depressed and despondent. She went from a happily married, successful saleswoman to being unemployed, without a penny to her name. Feeling de...

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  • Josh

    Meet Josh

    Graduation is a day every parent dreams about for their kids. One filled with reflections of happy childhood memories, aspirations of hope, excitement, pride and all the possibilities in the world for...

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  • Keith

    Meet Keith

    After addiction ruined Keith's career, broke up his marriage and caused him financial and legal problems, he finally sought treatment. While there, he was also diagnosed with OCD, depression and schiz...

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  • Chris

    Meet Chris

    For an addict, taking that critical first step to sobriety can be extremely scary due to painful withdrawal symptoms that can include anxiety, irritability, nervousness, vomiting, diarrhea, insomnia, ...

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  • Tracy

    Meet Tracy

    For as far back as Tracy can remember, she felt hopeless, full of doom and like she was loosing her mind. When she looks back at what contributed to those emotions, she reflects, “My father had schi...

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  • Ron

    Meet Ron

    Ron learned quickly he had an addictive personality when he was 11 and lost his finger in a boating accident. He took more pain medication than was prescribed and liked how much more social he was wit...

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  • Randy

    Meet Randy

    Randy grew up in an upper middle class family in New York. In his 20’s, he landed a corporate job programming for IBM and became successful and bored. He began partying recklessly and got hooked imm...

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  • Clint

    Meet Clint

    Clint had a self-described great childhood. He grew up in a loving, middle class family and stayed active by playing every sport imaginable. But like too many misguided youth, when he was in the impre...

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  • Bruce

    Meet Bruce

    Bruce was as an only child who grew up in a loving family in Massachusetts. His father was a prominent business owner and community leader and his mother was a career oriented professional who, for as...

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  • Steve

    Meet Steve

    It’s remarkable how a busy schedule can keep the demons at bay. For Steve, the best line of defense against a lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder was his demanding job. As an executive at a larg...

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  • Sherry

    Meet Sherry

    Sherry's patterns of abuse began as a child. Her stepfather gave her drugs, regularly molested her and raped her at gun point. She quickly learned to disassociate her mind from her body and realized t...

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  • Ron

    Meet Ron

    Ron was 26 when he experienced his first manic episode brought on by racing thoughts, extreme, irrational paranoia, fear and anxiousness. The popular, high school president - voted friendliest in his ...

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  • Ron

    Meet Ron

    From the Streets to Full-Time College Student Ron, a native of New Jersey, struggled financially growing up. His alcoholic father was in jail and his mother had a hard time making ends meet on her own...

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  • Michelle

    Meet Michelle

    When Michelle reflects on the 25 years she spent tormented by what she now knows were severe bipolar episodes, she regrets not acting sooner. Her life is much less volatile now and the quality of the ...

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  • Mary

    Meet Mary

    A little over 7 years ago, Mary sunk into a deep, excruciating depression when her husband divorced her for another woman leaving her alone to raise three children under the age of seven. She explains...

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  • Heidi

    Meet Heidi

    Heidi is an intelligent, friendly, energetic, proud 35 year old mother. She grew up in Honduras, before moving to the United States to attend college. She had a good job, a nice car and was doing well...

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  • Velma

    Meet Velma

    Velma, a resident of the rural farming community of Immokalee, is a 34 year old mother of four who has witnessed unthinkable trauma, experienced devastating loss and dealt with overwhelming health iss...

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  • Jackie

    Meet Jackie

    Jackie grew up in a self-described "dysfunctional" family. Her mother was in denial of her own mental health problems and ignored the serious warning signs that deeply affected Jackie throughout her e...

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  • Jenny

    Meet Jenny

    Jenny is a 59 year old mother of two who has battled mental illness for most of her adult life. As the child of an alcoholic mother, she struggled to cope with her mother’s addiction and the lack of...

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  • Bill

    Meet Bill

    When Bill left for the University of Florida, he never anticipated he’d have to come home after a few semesters for treatment for a psychotic break. Despite being an extremely intelligent young man,...

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  • Bob

    Meet Bob

    People with substance abuse problems hit their bottom in many different ways, some more than once. For Bob, it came seven years after the love of his life divorced him and he lost his multimillion dol...

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