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It’s past time to invest in mental health: Editorial

January 2nd, 2017 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on It’s past time to invest in mental health: Editorial)

picture 692Despite the ubiquity of mental illness and the steady erosion of the social stigma once attached to such struggles, the health-care system has not kept up.

By the age of 40, half of all Canadians will have suffered from some form of mental illness. More than 6 million, nearly one in five, struggle today with mood or anxiety disorders or other afflictions of the mind. One way or another, mental illness affects all of us.  Read the rest of this editorial at The Toronto Star…