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We need to do more than just talk about mental illness - There was a time when no one talked about mental illness . But, today, every tragic shooting is accompanied by calls for greater access to mental health treatment. The wheels of legislation turn slowly, but mental illness is a public health crisis that requires immediate attention to improve access to care, ...

We need to talk about mental illness  - The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) reports that one in four young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 have a diagnosable mental illness  ...

Why We Need to Talk More About Mental Illness in Tech and Business  - I found out about his death from an article in Business Insider, which said that he had a history of mental illness . Bipolar disorder was among the ...

We Need to Talk About Suicide Prevention  - Five years ago, we did not talk about depression and disorders of the brain, much less suicide. Today, we accept that mental illness is a disease and ...

10 Things You Need to Know About Codependency - We all know that there's still a huge stigma around addiction, abuse, and mental illness , so we're afraid to talk about having these problems ourselves ...

Destigmatizing mental illness through sharing stories  - Untreated mental illness is one of the nation's challenges. Stigma discourages people from seeking needed treatment. We need to talk more about ...

Patrick Kennedy finds a silver lining in fighting mental illness ... Former Rhode Island Representative Patrick Kennedy has called for mentally ill people to come out of the closet and talk publicly about their disease . “We need ...