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Old Feb 07, 2013, 04:41 AM
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That sounds terrible.

People with mental illness live on average 25 years less than people without. Why? Because idiots like the health professionals you ran into in the hospital think that our problems are entirely mental, and underdiagnose and undertreat physical illness.

Please take care.
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