NAMI Greater San Antonio offers understanding to anyone concerned about mental illness. Mental illnesses are brain disorders that are biologically based medical problems. Untreated, they can cause severe disturbances in thinking, feeling and relating. This results in substantially diminished capacity for dealing with the ordinary demands of life. Mental illness are not caused by bad parenting and not evidence of weakness of character.

The NAMI Bexar Warm Line is a free pre-crisis line that connects people to specialists who can lend a compassionate ear and/or connect them to resources in the community. They help you find food, housing, utility assistance, mental health support, and more. Bexar Warm Line supports you when your need someone to talk to, but you're not in immediate danger.