GRAND FORKS – More than one in five adults in this country live with a mental illness, which includes many conditions that vary in degree of severity, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Although this illness affects about 23% of the population, or 59.3 million people, “the stigma surrounding mental illness persists,” said playwright Kathleen Coudle-King, “and far too many families experience shame associated with relatives who suffer from what is in fact an illness.”

Coudle-King, of Grand Forks, hopes her new one-act play, “There’s Something I Must Tell You,” dispels some of that stigma and encourages discussion about this “critical issue,” she said. “This is something that touches many, many families.”

Based on research into Jamestown State Hospital archives, onlin

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