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Question: Are mental illnesses a form of intellectual disability or brain damage?
Answer: No. They are illnesses just like any other: heart disease, diabetes, asthma. Yet the traditions of flowers, sympathy and support provided to people with a physical illness are often denied to those with a mental illness.

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