A report on mental illness in Perth County (2008)
Download It Affects Us All – Mental Health Report (2008) (PDF)
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What would you do if you discovered your 13-year old daughter intentionally cutting herself and threatening suicide? How about if your aging mother were falling victim to Alzheimer’s? And what if you were a productive, wage-earning member of the workforce one day and crippling depression made it hard for you to drag yourself out of bed the next?
Think it couldn’t happen to you?
The fact is, mental illness can strike anyone, at anytime. It doesn’t discriminate based on age, race, gender, occupation or socio-economic status. Everyone is a potential candidate but unless you — or someone you’re close to — has had a mental illness, you have no idea what it’s like or how devastating the consequences can be.
