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CHICAGO - MENTALLY ILL REDUX

Remember our Mentally Ill Issue from last year? That's the one where we went and stayed with a group of Chicagoans who are dealing with heavy, heavy mental illnesses. They wrote every article. You can see the whole thing here.

So we just received this letter this month:

Hey guys,
I would have written this sooner but I've been coping with serious depression and am just now getting to a mental state that is about as close to normal as I am going to get.
I got your Mentally Ill issue soon after a stint in Chicago's finest psych ward last year and I still keep it as a sort of literary security blanket. For some reason, when my meds aren't working right and my mental state is all over the map, re-reading this issue reminds me that others are going through the same crazy crap and they are making it OK enough to put together an entire magazine. It's a comfort.
I still have that issue and I'll probably hang on to it for a long, long time. Thanks for putting it out there… it's saved my brain more than a few times…MORE