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Althia Raj

WATCH: Glenn Close Speaks On Her Family And Mental Illness

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 06.04.2012 | Canada Living
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OTTAWA -- Hollywood actress Glenn Close grew up in a typical stiff upper-lip Connecticut household where generations of family members suffered with m...

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Why the Media Shuns Mental Illness

Marvin Ross | Posted 04.09.2012 | Canada
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Marvin Ross

There is nothing newsworthy, unfortunately, in the stories of the many people with treated mental illness who are coping and accomplishing. There is the old adage that when a dog bites a man that's not news. When a man bites a dog, that is news, so most of the media coverage around the mentally ill has to do with crimes.

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