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Show Ease of Mind It was not too many years ago that the mention oi mental illness would cause a shudder of fear. But that 1 no longer the case today, because we know that mental illness can can be treated; that uental patients do recov- tr; that mental illness is no longer hopeless. Today, medical science has a number of effective wea-ipons wea-ipons with which to attack the many different forms of i mental illness. It . has the tranquilizing drugs and an-lli-dcpression drugs. It has shock therapy, individual psy-ifhatherapy psy-ifhatherapy and group therapy. And through the use of '.these treatment techniques, many thousands of mentally aijck people are being helped to recovery each month. Now medical science is faced with a new challengedto roonvert these partial advances into a smashing break-i break-i through; to save, not thousands of vicitms of mental ill-nesR, ill-nesR, but hundreds of thousands; to help not only some, .but all of the children and adults suffering from the tor-itures tor-itures of mental illness. This week Mental Health Week citizens of this community, and thousands of other towns and cities over the country, will take stock of their own facilities for helping help-ing the mentally ill, to see in what ways these facilities may be. expanded and improved, through programs of treatment, prevention and research. Mental illness cannot be fought In the national capital capi-tal and in the state capital alone, it must be fought right In the communities where the people live. |