We don’t want to see it, touch it or talk about it. We hope it slinks away and hides in some deep, dark hole.

That’s mental illness.

“It really is the leprosy of this era,” says Marnie Wedlake, mental health educator with the London-Middlesex branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association. “You’d almost be better off having a big red letter A on your forehead.”

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