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Full interview texts are available on request. The Senate hearing coincides with NAMI's annual Legislative Conference, February 5-8, at the Hilton Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, and offers an opportunity for broader coverage of issues involving mental illness and suicide prevention. These are obviously treatable illnesses. Another thing people don't think about enough or emphasize enough is that because cancer and heart disease hit older people, they are seen as lethal illnesses. Because the age of onset for mental illnesses is very, very young, people don't tend to think of mental illnesses as the potentially lethal illnesses they are.