| A growing recognition of the fact that
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| | are real, treatable conditions that
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| "mental health is fundamental to a
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| | interfere with a person's overall
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| person's overall health, indispensable to
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| | well-being and ability to do many of the
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| personal well-being and instrumental to
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| | things that they would otherwise enjoy. A
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| leading a balanced and productive life"
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| | suffer of clinical depression can no more
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| likely contributes to the fact that about
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| | "snap out of it," than a person suffering
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| 15% of our country's population now use
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| | from a seizure has the will-power to stop
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| some form of mental health services in
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| | taking a seizure.
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| any given year. Nonetheless, despite
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| | Mental illnesses range from clinical
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| effective treatments, according to Dr.
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| | anxiety and depression to Alzheimer's
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| Satcher's 1999 Surgeon General's Mental
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| | disease and schizophrenia. Anxiety
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| Health report, "Nearly half of all
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| | disorders, the most common form of mental
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| Americans who have a severe mental
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| | illness, affect more than 10% of
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| illness fail to seek treatment". The fact
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| | Americans yearly. Almost 25% of Americans
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| that nearly one in five Americans are
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| | will suffer an anxiety disorder at some
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| affected by a mental disorder, reinforces
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| | point in their lives. Every May,
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| the understanding that "few Americans are
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| | thousands of sites throughout the country
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| untouched by mental illness", whether
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| | offer free, local anxiety screenings, as
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| directly or indirectly.
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| | part of National Anxiety Disorders
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| Clinical anxiety and clinical depression
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| | Screening Day.
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