Commentary: To improve mental health, we must first understand it

Commentary: To improve mental health, we must first understand it

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“Few young people get even a single hour of education about mental illness or addiction, its signs or its treatment. We can't expect people to step forward or to seek help for themselves or a family member when we don't even provide them the …
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Priest, teacher convicted in church abuse trial

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In September, Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn was convicted of a misdemeanor for failing to report a priest known to possess child pornography. The victims' advocacy group Bishopaccountability.org recently began posting the secret church documents aired …
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The writer who revealed the dark side of the American dream

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Based on Connell's own upbringing in upper-middle class Kansas City, it is a subtle, slow-burner of a book. … Her son turns a bit odd; a daughter escapes Mrs Bridge's suffocating addiction to respectability for the wild, promiscuous shores of New York.
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