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Welcome to this episode of The Untold Story, everybody.

I'm Martha McCallum.

It is great to have you with us. And I'm really happy to be joined today by Patrick J. Kennedy, the former U.S. representative, of course, former congressman.

And he has written a new book called Profiles in Mental Health Courage that was written with Stephen Freed. Patrick, welcome. Great to have you with us today.

Thank you, Martha. It's great to be with you.

You know, I mean, obviously everyone knows you as the son of former Senator Ted Kennedy and as a former U.S. congressman.

But you have really spent this last part of your life, the last decade, speaking out for people who suffer for mental health issues

and trying to make it as mainstream a health issue as everything else that's covered by insurance

and just in terms of people's recognition of this.

And you passed a major bill under President Bush with regard to parity for mental health issues

and with physical health issues.

So, you know, I do want to go back, though, a little bit for those who might not be

familiar with all of this, if you wouldn't mind, because this is the untold story, just giving

us a little bit of your personal story and your own struggle and why this has become such a central

part of how you spend your energies and your passions.

Well, I never intended on being a mental health and addiction advocate when I went into politics,

but in my second term of office, my roommate, when I was in drug rehab and high school

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