May is “National Mental Health Awareness Month.”  Across the country organizations will work to raise awareness in an effort to reduce stigma.Yet, each day the front pages of Connecticut’s newspapers are likely to report new incidents of tragic violence of one person toward another.  Some will tell the story of the horrible crescendo of long-standing strife within a struggling family.  Other news will give the latest examples of violence in the community that is random, where the victims, anonymous to the perpetrator, were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

For more on this story, visit: Op-Ed: Mental health and front page news – getting it right | The CT Mirror.