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			<title><![CDATA[Valarie Austin]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Valarie was diagnosed with Major Depression in 1996 and has a family member with Bi-Polar Disorder. She currently works full-time as a Psychiatric Technician and is a full-time student at the Southern New Hampshire University's Masters Program in Community Mental Health.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Paige Corologos]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[I am a 38 year old homemaker and a mother with Bipolar 1, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Panic syndrome with agoraphobia. I live in Burlington ,VT with my husband and daughter (age 9) and after many years of hospitalizations, ECT, and medicine changes have a fairly stable life. I was diagnosed when I was 28. I can not work and I receive Social Security, which helps my husband’s income, but I do enjoy the martial art of Aikido which I take part in about five times a week. It gives me an outlet for my energies as well as a sense of accomplishment and schedule, without the stress of a job.It has helped me a lot. I would like to speak about mental illness, because it would have helped me so much to have been diagnosed earlier (the symptoms where all there from a very young age and my first suicide attempt was at 13). Receiving some kind of help at a young age is crucial to helping soften the later effects of illness or stopping them all together. That didn't happen for me out of ignorance and fear. Decreasing these can only help the coming generations.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Neal Muse]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Neal is in recovery from two serious types of mental illness - Manic Depression (Bipolar) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He became independent from his parents when he was a teenager and slowly slid into dependence on alcohol to reduce his mental/emotional symptoms. After "hitting bottom", he set out to recover and build a new life. He Struggled for many years,now receiving ongoing support and services from the Howard Center for Human Services' mental health center. He has many friends and is a volunteer at the Fletcher library as well as serving on the Advisory Council for the MHEI speakers' bureau.]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Neal is in recovery from two serious types of mental illness - Manic Depression (Bipolar) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He became independent from his parents when he was a teenager and slowly slid into dependence on alcohol to reduce his mental/emotional symptoms. After "hitting bottom", he set out to recover and build a new life. He Struggled for many years,now receiving ongoing support and services from the Howard Center for Human Services' mental health center. He has many friends and is a volunteer at the Fletcher library as well as serving on the Advisory Council for the MHEI speakers' bureau.]]></media:description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Michael Butler]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Michael experienced a traumatic childhood. He recalls horrendous parental abuse and teen-age institutionalization. His early adult years included multiple hospitalizations. At this time, he has lots of friends and mutual support – especially within the community of others who are recovering with the help of Howard Center in Burlington, VT. (HC is a community mental health center.) "I’m lots better now.... I use medication, keep busy, and can see the difference between what I am thinking and what is really happening." He says "I want to help people, promote understanding, show how we are all humans like everybody."]]></description>
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			<media:title><![CDATA[Michael Butler]]></media:title>
			<media:description><![CDATA[Michael experienced a traumatic childhood. He recalls horrendous parental abuse and teen-age institutionalization. His early adult years included multiple hospitalizations. At this time, he has lots of friends and mutual support – especially within the community of others who are recovering with the help of Howard Center in Burlington, VT. (HC is a community mental health center.) "I’m lots better now.... I use medication, keep busy, and can see the difference between what I am thinking and what is really happening." He says "I want to help people, promote understanding, show how we are all humans like everybody."]]></media:description>
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