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December 1, 2014

Mental illness: Long past time to break silence

One of the challenges we still need to unravel as we come to grips with mental health issues in the United States is the silence.

Much too often, these are issues we choose not to speak about, fearful of the stigma that too many of us attach to mental illness.

12/01/2014

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