Health & Fitness
The Nanny Nine: Wellstone-Barlow Mental Health Initiative
Mental Illness affects all of us, directly or indirectly. KSTP Meteorologist Ken Barlow kept his own illness a secret to the public. He and Dave Wellstone have formed a non-profit to help others.
If you think Mental Illness doesn’t affect you, think again. I would bet that each of you knows someone with a Mental Health Condition…and you maybe don’t even realize it. This week we are tragically reminded of how Mental Health plays a part in every day lives, with the loss of Mindy McCready to suicide. Her struggles were well publicized, but she was ashamed of the stigma. For many people their conditions are not known, sometimes not even to themselves.
This was the case of KSTP Meteorologist Ken Barlow. For years he struggled with a series of symptoms, but it wasn’t until 5 years ago, at the age of 45, that a Doctor finally put all the puzzle pieces together that he was bipolar.
