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Taboo. It’s hard to think that, in the 21st Century, taboo is a word that is still associated with mental illness. Growing up in Lower Sackville, a suburb of Halifax, mental illness was not something that was talked about in my family. I was first diagnosed with depression in 1997, and it was then that I realized that I had experienced my first depressive episode when I was in high school, back in 1990. But because mental illness was not something that we talked about, I didn’t know that it w...