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Jane Pauleys Battle with Bipolar

Posted on October 02, 2008

Jane Pauley was at a fundraiser locally earlier this week, talking about her battle with bipolar disorder. Pauley, 57, is best known for her 13-year work on NBC s The Today Show and 11 years on the network s news magazine, Dateline NBC. A local newspaper, The Patriot Ledger, had the coverage of her comments: My goal in talking about mental illness is to help people with mental illness see themselves differently, she said. And more importantly, to help everyone else see us in new and powerful ways. Because this stigma thing is more than mean and ignorant, it inhibits peop...

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