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MIKE MASTERSON: Often undiagnosed
It's hard to believe almost a fifth of adult Americans experience some form of mental illness in any given year. That's just the reported cases, according to the CEO for Centers of Psychiatric Excellence, Dr. Prakash Masand. That amounts to about 44 million of us who come face to face with what I call "The Beast."
It’s time to cure the stigma for good
May is Mental Health Month and the theme designated by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) this year is “Cure Stigma.” We have certainly come a long way and are more accepting about mental illness, but we still have a lot of work to do.