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The Myth of Mental Illness

Julia E Hubbel

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The phone call came in late in the afternoon.

“It’s about Peter.”

As soon as I heard her voice, thick with tears, I knew. My brother had committed suicide.

My big brother, 62, had popped a handful of pills, downed those with half a bottle of Tequila, and gone to sleep in his Jeep right in front of her house.

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Julia E Hubbel

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