Mental Illness Awareness Week - KCBD NewsChannel 11 Lubbock

10/2/06

Mental Illness Awareness Week

This is mental illness awareness week, which focuses on a wide range of conditions including depression to eating disorders.

So the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center is providing a free panel discussion tomorrow night to bring awareness to the different types of mental illness and the many new treatments that are available.

That's tomorrow night at 7:00pm at the Texas Tech Academic Building, classroom 100. That's that big boxy building in front of the Health Science Center facing 4th street.

For more information, call 783-9268.    

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