May 12, 2008
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The Candidates’ Positions
Hillary Clinton
U.S. Senator from New York.
Barack Obama

U.S. Senator from Illinois.
John Edwards
Former U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
Mike Gravel
Former U.S. Senator (AK)
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Fast Facts
  1. In the eighteenth century, Americans believed insane patients were possessed by demons, were evil, and had to be chained to asylum walls.
  2. Among elderly Americans, those age 85 and over account for the highest percentage of clinical depression, 22 percent women and 15 percent men.
  3. Depression is the most frequently diagnosed mood disorder in children and adolescents.
  4. While more women than men attempt suicide, men are more likely to succeed in killing themselves.

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Mental illnesses are biologically based disorders that interfere with an individual's ability to think, feel, act, and relate within the standard norms of society.

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