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by Dr. Kristen Ray

While there’s growing acceptance of common mental health conditions like depression and anxiety, overall, the stigma of mental illness still permeates our society. Depictions of the mentally ill in media are particularly troubling, as they’re too often hyperbolized and grossly altered to fit long-standing stereotypes of people with mental illnesses as menaces to society. This dangerous trend helps perpetuate the viewpoint that people who have a mental illness or mental health issue are hazardous to others. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many mental...

The summer season is quickly approaching, and the Valley is heating up with dozens of decadent activities and events to attend that will surely make this a summer to remember. We’ve rounded up some of our very things to check out around the Valley this weekend, May 17 through May 19:

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