Dear Editor,

Mental illness is a big problem in this country today.

If a person has never experienced this terrible condition, I hope and pray that you never do.

Something is not right when so many young people, old people and veterans commit suicide. Another disturbing feeling is the way friends and others have so little patience with the giving and understanding of love.

Ask yourself if you lost a loved one, ‘How would you feel?’

It can happen to any family. Don’t think that it can’t.

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I hope and pray that those friends and others will not make every excuse in the book as to why they did nothing. God bless those people.

Wake up and call your legislators.

If anyone out there with this condition, please know that you are loved by our Savior and me.

God bless all,

Linda Hughes

Wetumpka