{"id":17064,"date":"2015-10-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhe180dev.wpenginepowered.com\/news\/everyone-can-play-a-role-in-addressing-mental-illness\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:14:09","slug":"everyone-can-play-a-role-in-addressing-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/everyone-can-play-a-role-in-addressing-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone can play a role in addressing mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental illness has been part of my life since I was a child. Four of my six family members were hospitalized with diagnoses ranging from schizophrenia to borderline personality disorder to depression. Where some people saw my family members only as \u201cpatients,\u201d to me, they were always known as mom, dad, Gary and Stephanie. 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