Don't trivialise mental illness, commission warns

By Melissa Davey
Updated February 27 2013 - 8:08am, first published 8:06am

Mental illness risks being trivialised because words such as anxious and depressed are being flippantly used to describe routine emotions like worry or sadness, the National Mental Health Commission says.

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