Newsmakers, January 19, 2012

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A new study indicates that over $52-million dollars was spent to treat mental illness in the La Crosse area in 2009 and 2010. Author and journalist Kathy Cronkite talks about living with depression and ways to end the stigma that surrounds mental illness.

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  • The Cost of Mental Illness in and Around La Crosse

    new study indicates that over $52-million dollars was spent to treat mental illness in the La Crosse area in 2009 and 2010. We talk with the study’s author, Tara De Long, and Patti Jo Severson, co-chair with the Mental Health Coalition of the Greater La Crosse Area and co-president of the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

  • The Cost of Mental Illness in and Around La Crosse

    Author and journalist Kathy Cronkite — daughter of the late television journalist Walter Cronkite — talks about living with depression and ways to end the stigma that surrounds mental illness. She was in La Crosse this past fall to speak at the annual luncheon to benefit the Women’s Fund of Greater La Crosse. (First broadcast in October 2011.)

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