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Archive Home > 2008 > February > 21 > Coping with mental Illness

Coping with mental Illness

Many caregivers of mentally ill struggle alongside patients

By Betsy Q. Cliff / The Bulletin
February 21, 2008

When Roger Olson leads a support class for people who care for loved ones with mental illness, he teaches a hard truth. The diagnosis, he tells people, “does not come with a covered dish.”

No neighbors come by bringing casseroles, no one sympathetically cooks meals, and....

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