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Dealing with schizophrenia

Collins — a daughter, a sister and a social worker — wants you to know a few things about mental illness:

— You can get better.
— You can be successful.
— You can make up for the years you lost.

Collins, 47, lost about 20 of them.

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Man In Everest Challenge To Fight Mental Illness Stigma

By Rosamond Hutt, Community Newswire
ADVENTURE Everest Dorset, 2006-03-14 16:18:59.0

A Dorset man was today preparing for the first stages of an epic challenge to become the first person to climb Mount Everest while battling severe mental illness.

Stuart Baker-Brown, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1996, plans to scale the world’s tallest peak in April next year.

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