Arkansans Walk for Mental Health & Awareness
By: Betsey Martin, KARK 4-News
Updated: May 26, 2007
Saturday, hundreds hit the pavement,
to support Arkansans living with mental illness. Supporters of the
"It's an illness just like
anything else. It's okay now to have high cholesterol because what is it --
it's your eating pattern, or your genes, it's all genetic and that's exactly
the way it is with mental illness, it's a brain disorder," NAMI Arkansas
Executive Director, Kim Arnold said.
And
organizers say that although one in five people suffer from mental illness --
the disease is treatable.
