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SO WHICH CAME FIRST?

Brain Diseases Share Biology: a person vulnerable to one type of brain disease may also be vulnerable to another. Addiction and Metal Illness are both brain diseases. They involve the same pathways, molecules and chemicals in the brain.

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The STIGMA 
...for being ill? How would you feel about me if I had Cancer, Heart Disease or Diabetes?

Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness?

"Diseases of the body garner sympathy, except those of the brain. Why is that?"

Wax, who was disagnosed a decade ago with clinical depression, urges us to put an end to the stigma of mental illness.
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