Opinion: Acceptance and early treatment key to coping with mental illness

If it wasn’t for his transparency, one might not even suspect Austin Mardon lives with schizophrenia. With an upcoming publication entitled Ardross: From Prairie to Castle, raising a foster child, and actively advocating for better mental health care, Mardon doesn’t fit the villainized profile of a person with schizophrenia that the media tends to portray.
“I might be mentally ill,” Mardon says, “but I’m relatively mentally healthy.”
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