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“Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it.” 2 —Charles Bukowski, poet and writer

reasons behind the differences in the way people handle things. 3 Additionally, being able to talk to someone about a trauma or fear can help a person feel safer and more secure about their mental health. When a person has a mental illness, they may not take care of themselves very well. They could eat poorly, not get enough sleep, take dangerous chances, have trouble with managing money or keeping a job, or even get into danger- ous behaviors like drug and alcohol abuse. Not everyone with mental illness will do these things, and some people engage in these kinds of behaviors even though they ar- en’t mentally ill, but there is a correlation between men-

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Overview of Mental Health Issues