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• Mental health experts discuss the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline progress in Georgia

  20-05-2023 01:27 via cbsnews.com
  
  ATLANTA (WUPA) – Mental health experts are crediting a life-saving hotline for playing a major role in battle against suicides and the mental health crisis. Organizations discussed the progress made and the challenges ahead.Jolyn Matheson, a certified peer specialist, knows all too well about mental health struggles and the importance of a having a lifeline like 988.988 Suicide and Crisis Hotline "I started with a diagnosis of depression when I was 11 years old," Matheson said. "That depre
  
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• Atlanta police release body cam footage from Midtown hospital shooting

  20-05-2023 01:15 via cbsnews.com
  
  ATLANTA (WUPA) -- Newly released body cam footage from the mass  shooting in Midtown shows Atlanta police searching for the suspect, Deion Patterson, 24.In the video, you can see officers in the Northside Hospital Midtown Medical Building on May 3, searching for Patterson and evacuating staff and patients, before Patterson was arrested during an eight-hour manhunt.Four people survived their injuries, but CDC worker Amy St. Pierre, 39, did not.According to Patterson's mother, he is a former
  
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• The Confess Project Metro Atlanta joins MTV for Third Annual Mental Health Action Day

  20-05-2023 01:03 via cbsnews.com
  ATLANTA (WUPA) – Cosmetology students joined The Confess Project Metro Atlanta and MTV to take action against mental illness with a hair competition.Alayshia Kingsberry is among the student cosmetologists taking classes at the Health and Style Institute, where they're having big conversations about hair, skin and mental health."If we can help them here, it will take them further, because everything starts in the mind," she said, about helping clients.Kingsberry and other students have join
  
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