• are biologically-based brain diseases that profoundly disrupt a person’s ability to think, feel and relate to others and their environment.
• include such illness as schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorder (manic-depression), which affects 1 in every 5 families.
• are catastrophic diseases with neurological, biological, genetic and perhaps viral components not yet understood.
• are no-fault, biological brain diseases that are more common than cancer, diabetes or heart disease.
• devastate caring families emotionally, physically and financially.
• costs billions in care and lost earnings
• strike young people in their most productive years.
• will affect over 5 million Americans in any given year.
  

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