Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week kicks off the first week of May, as part of Mental Health Awareness Month. NASMHPD is proud to be working on a new initiative to promote routine and consistent screening for Tardive Dyskinesia for individuals with serious mental illness served in state mental health systems. The TD Screening Initiative is informed by voices of lived experience with mental illness and those who care for them. As part of this work, and in honor of TD Awareness Week, we talked to a friend of NASMHPD about their experience overcoming fear of tardive dyskinesia in their journey to accepting help and to recovery.