Tips on how to manage life, deal with thoughts of death and embrace recovery from mental illness
Fallon Finch’s family claims she did not receive emergency medical treatment that could have saved her life because she told the doctor she could not afford the cost of blood tests
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The economic crisis in the country appears to be pushing people over the mental edge
Treating it with the urgent attention and decisive intervention that it deserves is long overdue
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