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Mental stability is part of your spiritual nature
AN EASILY MISSED bit of dialogue in the 1998 movie Down in the Delta makes an important point about attitudes toward mental health.
Almost lost to drugs and alcohol, Loretta is sent to the ancestral home in Mississippi to live for the summer with her uncle Earl. There Loretta meets her Aunt Annie, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Earl and Annie's son, Will, a successful lawyer in Atlanta, is disturbed because Earl's mother doesn't recognize him.
In a brief exchange, Will's wife tells Earl that she thinks Will sees himself in his mother. She says that each time he forgets something, he gets a look that shows his fear that someday he might be like his mother.
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September 24, 2001 issue
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What this Mind imparts is forever
Cyril Rakhmanoff
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YOUR LETTERS
with contributions from Lee J. Gutteter, Ann Tufts-Church, Marilyn Jean Perkinson, Katherine C. Pennington
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items of interest
with contributions from Douglas M. Lawson
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Mental decline is surmountable
By Rosalie E. Dunbar
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Mental stability is part of your spiritual nature
By Robert A. Johnson
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Chronic fatigue and the fast track
INTERVIEW WITH TERRI FRIEL
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Compassion on the Green Line
By Gwendolyn Joy Forest
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Lessons from the pumpkin patch
By Laura Bantly
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Swimming with the jellyfish ... and God
Jéssica Lays Amorim dos Santos
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A riff on joy
By Zöe Landale
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Inspired thoughts bring freedom from sickness
Florángela Borbón Ortiz
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A spiritual journey
Joy Ellen Booth
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Quality of life improves
John F. Anderson
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Walking away from injury
Lauren McCulloch
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God's care ends worry and pain
Diane H. Agnew
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'Mem'ries ...'
John Selover