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Catching Mental Illness Early

Local teens help disarm a killer

by Madeline Strong Diehl

posted 6/29/2011

Nathan Edmunds had just started ninth grade at Skyline High when he was overcome by a sadness so deep that he found it hard to get out of bed in the morning. He'd been a straight-A student with many friends, but both his grades and his relationships began to wobble as weeks went by and his sadness didn't lift. Then, a couple of months after the onset of his

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