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The Heard - Our Speakers' Bureau
Meet Ross Szabo
Ross Szabo will never forget riding in a car with his father at age 11 and hearing the sentence that changed his life forever, "Your brother is in the hospital." Mental disorders entered Ross's life that day as he later visited his brother in a psychiatric ward, but his experience had just begun. After he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 16, Ross was hospitalized in his senior year of high school for wanting to take his own life. Ten months later, he was forced to take a medical leave of absence from American University and was hospitalized again due to a relapse. Ross returned to American University in the fall of 2000 and graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor's of Arts degree in psychology from American University in May of 2002. |
Ross Szabo
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| Ross is currently the Director of Youth Outreach for NMHAC and began speaking about mental health at age 17. In the last five years he is the only person in the country who has spoken to over 500,000 young people in high schools and colleges about mental health issues. He has been featured in Parade and Seventeen magazines, appeared on CNN, MTV and CBS and had his presentation turned into a television program for PBS. He was named 2007 Best Male Performer of the Year by Campus Activities Magazine which recognized him as one of the top speakers in the country on the college speaking circuit. Ross is a founding member of the Leadership 21 Committee of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
Ross's book, "BEHIND HAPPY FACES: What Young Adults Need to Know About Mental Health," will be published in the fall of 2007. An accessible and comforting resource for young adults, parents, teachers, counselors and administrators, it provides a better understanding of important emotional issues. |
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