MIRA In The News

DEPRESSION: GETTING HELP WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS WRONG

Living Healthy, Spring 2000

KAREN ENGLISH

Anybody can have a bad day. In fact, feeling down-hearted once ion a while is a normal response to the ups and downs of live. But when feelings of sadness or hopelessness don't go away after a coupe of weeks - or keep coming back - it's time to pay attention.

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DEPRESSION A DISEASE, SO WE SHOULD TREAT IT AS SUCH

Crain's Detroit Business - Published on November 22, 1999

PAT MASON, MIRA PRESIDENT

CEO's, company presidents and human resources executives, please take note: In a time of cost containment, social enlightenment and wellness, it is unconscionable that we still regard depression and other mental illnesses as we did cancer 25 years ago.

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'IT'S OK TO HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESS'
BLOOMFIELD HILLS MAN LEADS A GROUP THAT FIGHTS STIGMA ASSOCIATED WITH DISORDERS OF THE MIND

Detroit Free Press - Published on 08/08/1999.

MARIAN LIU, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

"I have a mental illness," Patrick Mason said as he stood before strangers at an insurance seminar recently in Troy. The revelation that he is getting treatment to overcome debilitating clinical depression was met with a standing ovation.

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GROUP SUPPORTS RESEARCH ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS

The Oakland Press - Published on 04/03/1999

GINNY STOLICKER, OAKLAND PRESS

Several years ago, a group of doctors, psychiatrists, parents and businesspeople packed into a dining room at Patrick's restaurant in Auburn Hills. The topic of discussion? Mental illness and research.

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